I know a big aspect of being a UU and one thing I’ve been struggling with recently is being open minded and accepting of people with different opinions.

I live in a very conservative part of the USA, in the middle of nowhere in Indiana. My wife and I have been attending our UU church for about 4 months now and it’s great. We are finally around people who share our same beliefs, religiously and politically. With us being in rural America we are in the middle of hateful politics and rhetoric. My friends and family are ALL republicans and we do not see eye to eye with them regarding any of that! I’m struggling to be accepting of them as I think there politics is full of hate and make my and my wife’s life harder. How do I become more accepting and ok with that? They are my family after all and these are friends I have been with since I was 4, I’m 33 now. With this charged political season my wife and I are sick of the people around us and the hate they spew.

TW: Child Loss

The wife and I are going through a difficult time with losing our baby girl. My wife was 19 weeks pregnant and gave birth to our beautiful daughter, unfortunately she was too little for this world. This happened about a week ago and my wife talked about joining a church which she has never done in the past. We are going to grief counseling.

Onto the church we are from rural Indiana and both of us are very liberal in our views, we felt a traditional Christian church with how clique it is in our small town and how hateful it can be that it wouldn’t be for us. Instead I was googling and found out about UU, never heard of it and we are both interested. She needs some help spiritually and having a sense of community other than family during these difficult times. I have no idea what I’m looking for but I’m trying everything to make sure my wife will fine.

I guess my question is how is the community side of it. Since we moved to our small town my wife has struggled with finding a sense of community and like minded people, people who are liberal and caring, I just hope she can find some nice people who she can call friends. How are the sermons? The community of people is really my question. We will be attending our first one in two weeks. It’ll be in Muncie, IN if anyone has insight that would be great ❤️❤️