A conservative coworker (referred to herself as “more red” than I and another coworker who mentioned reproductive rights concerns in a recent discussion — we work in healthcare and have to move states every few years so it was appropriate) has started asking me about my UU congregation. She wants to build community for her young family, which I think UU is great for. When I told her about the diverse topics we’ve discussed in our religious education classes she thought it was great to learn about so many different things as a generally curious person. I’ve given her info about how UU philosophy varies from mainline Protestant and dogmatic congregations, let her know about our incoming nonbinary Christian UU minister, and she still seems interested. I have encouraged her to google more about the values/principles of UU and provided the program from our most recent service that has lots of info on it.

We are friendly and have hung out on occasion, and share a lot of projects and personal discussions. If you were in my position, would you invite her family to join for an upcoming service you think might interest them? I’m all about building a longer table, but don’t want to cross any boundaries, seem like I’m trying to recruit her to become a blue-hair liberal, or to in some way have her or my church community offended by disagreements on some fairly fundamental values. Thoughts?