Identity-Based Ministries
Identity-Based Ministries seeks to make Unitarian Universalism a welcoming, inclusive, empowering, and just faith for Unitarian Universalists who identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, and/or transgender; economically oppressed; Latina/Latino and Hispanic; multiracial families; people of color; and people with disabilities. Resources for congregations include consultation and educational programs for accessibility/anti ableism; Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender concerns/anti heterosexism; and racial and ethnic concerns/anti racism including anti-racism resources for people of color.Racial and Ethnic Concerns Program Office
The Racial and Ethnic Concerns Program Office provides leadership in the development of strategies and resources to make Unitarian Universalism welcoming, affirming, and inclusive of Latinas/os and Hispanics, multiracial families, and people of color. Services include advocacy, consultation, resource development, and support for Unitarian Universalist religious professionals, lay leaders, and seminarians who identify as people of color, Latina/o and Hispanic, and/or multiracial. In addition, this office provides support for leadership development and community building to UU affiliate organizations and committees that represent the interests of the constituents named above.
Beyond Categorical Thinking Program
The Beyond Categorical Thinking (BCT) Program helps congregations in the ministerial search process to identify unconscious biases related to ability/disability, gender identification/expression, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation when considering ministerial candidates. The program, created in 1989, has increased the likelihood of congregational calls for ministers who identify as one or more of the following identities: bisexual, gay, lesbian, and/or transgender; people of color and/or Latina/o and Hispanic; and people with disabilities. BCT trainers spend a weekend at the congregation where they lead and/or participate in Sunday worship, conduct a 3-hour congregational workshop, and engage in dialogue with the ministerial search committee. Congregational history and issues of age, class, and gender can be incorporated by special request of the search committee. All congregations in search are encouraged to undertake the BCT program.
For more information contact idbmatuuadotorg.
Last updated on Wednesday, March 7, 2007.
