Our Theme: Welcome Y'all 👋 

Welcome isn't passive. 

Welcome is a practice and a posture we choose, especially when forces around us try to divide. This conference explores Welcome as:

• Opening our doors to people the world would rather push away

• Creating genuinely safe spaces for LGBTQ+ folks, people of color, immigrants, disabled folks, and all marginalized communities

• Embracing uncertainty and new possibilities as we navigate changing times

• Making room for all parts of ourselves—our anger and hope, grief and joy, exhaustion and determination

• Building beloved community through everyday acts of radical hospitality

• Nurturing creativity and imagination when we need it most

This conference is designed to restore what may be depleted, to help you reconnect with the "why" beneath your secular community, and to send you home rejuvenated for whatever comes next.

This conference follows Sunday Assembly Atlanta's Code of Conduct because we're serious about creating welcoming, safe spaces for everyone.

Across the US, the UK, and beyond, the nonreligious population keeps growing—we count for nearly a third in many places now. Yet so many of us are isolated and scattered (and smothered and covered, for those who know), wondering where we fit. At the same time, political and social tensions run high, with division threatening the issues we care about—human rights, climate justice, economic fairness, bodily autonomy—all of which feel more urgent than ever. That's exactly why the work we're doing matters. 

Creating spaces grounded in reason and compassion, where science and evidence guide us, where progressive values are lived out loud, where people can show up authentically without pretending to believe things they don't: This is the work, this is the joy. We're not just gathering for nice Sunday events (though we do throw a good potluck). We're building real infrastructure for belonging. We're creating mutual aid networks and chosen families. We're proving that a secular community can be just as rich, sustaining, and joyful as any faith tradition—and maybe more inclusive to boot.