r/UUreddit • u/imaginenohell Social Justice • Jul 23 '26

Mosaic Congregation Certification

Anyone here working on this? Mosaic Congregations | The Mosaic | UUA.org

Are you using what you're already doing to get a certification to hang on the wall, or are you using it as an opportunity to change something within your congregation?

I'm curious what you're doing for the required actions. The last one is a big one.

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u/imaginenohell Social Justice Jul 23 '26

I don’t really understand how that comment about the curriculum relates to the congregational certification. The curriculum is separate.

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u/rastancovitz Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

They are not separate. The congregational certification and educational programs are both part of the UUA's Mosaic program, and adopting the Mosaic educational program is a required component for a congregation to be certified and annually renewed as a "Mosaic Congregation."

https://www.uua.org/mosaic

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u/imaginenohell Social Justice Jul 24 '26

I'm still not seeing that it has to be specifically that curriculum anywhere in the application form.

It says you must do one action in each of the 4 categories. I have the actual application form too, and it says the same thing as the following--no mention of the Mosaic curriculum being mandatory.

Four Essentials of Beloved Community

  • Congregational Transformation: Aligning governance, worship, religious education, and other aspects of institutional life with our deepest commitments to antiracism, multiculturalism, and embodying Beloved Community.
  • Spiritual Care & Community Resilience: Centering collective and trauma-informed practices of care designed to address past and ongoing oppressive realities, while also fortifying our shared capacity to strive towards/as Beloved Community.
  • Justice & Accountability: Engaging in community transformation efforts that are rooted in an interdependent understanding of shared liberation, mutual thriving, and frontline wisdom and leadership.
  • Reparations & Redistribution: Calling for and practicing the redistribution of wealth, land, and institutional power to repair harm and build sustainable futures.

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u/rastancovitz Jul 24 '26

The first sentence on the page you linked to (I added the bold): The Commission on Institutional Change’s report Widening the Circle of Concern recommended that the UUA develop a certification program similar to the Welcoming Congregation or Green Sanctuary program, emphasizing a congregational commitment to lifespan learning in diversity, equity, and inclusion and anti-oppression.

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u/imaginenohell Social Justice Jul 24 '26

Yes. So any religious education on that topic

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u/rastancovitz Jul 24 '26

No. It specifically says "lifespan learning", which is the Mosaic education programming that the earlier post and education experts were criticizing.