Middle School Youth Religious Education

The Middle School Youth Class is exploring the diversity of families in a curriculum entitled, appropriately, “Families”. 

 

This program explores families through venues that are based in the central tenets of Unitarian Universalist faith.  The focus is on what matters to and about families.  The program first examines the composition of families and then moves on to how they function.  This shift sets the stage for participants' project work—trying to understand families in their congregation.  By thinking about family function, participants move beyond accepting simple appearances toward empathic inquiry.  Focusing on family function and respecting families as matters of the heart will empower youth to ask the people they photograph during their project work more about what they think and feel about their families.