WHAT WE DO

​House United brings people together across lines of political and racial difference for the common good. The core mission of House United is simple: first, to remind Americans and people around the world that our differences ought to be an asset, rather than a threat, and that we therefore increase our quality of life by being different together; second, to help them experience the truth of this claim in their lives, their communities, and their work.

WHERE WE DO IT 

HU helps families, neighborhoods, churches, corporate teams, academic communities, law firms, and any other groups that experience political strife and the fractured community it can cause. HU work engages communities across the nation, both in person and online; and our resources are being used both in the U.S. and internationally.

HOW WE DO IT

House United trains people and groups in practices that will help them cross lines of political difference and build viewpoint-diverse communities. These practices include…

• Courageous Conversations put Red and Blue in direct conversation on controversial issues, in order to train new habits of respectful, constructive engagement across difference;
  
• Share the Wisdom events feature prominent leaders from the business, military, and sports world in panel discussions. These accomplished people reveal how they’ve successfully brought wildly diverse groups together to accomplish common goals.
  
• Joint Red-Blue Work Projects invite politically- and racially-diverse people to build a house, serve in a soup kitchen, clean up their neighborhood, or otherwise work together in ways that both accomplish good things and put them in relationship with one another.
  
• Red-Blue Reconciliation Workshops provide hope and help in spaces where broken relationships need repair. Through them, friends, family members, church folk, or co-workers who have stopped talking to one another over politics learn ways to turn back toward one another and mend their connection
  
• Faith Friendships recognizes that scriptures from all major religious traditions include a mandate to work toward unity and community. This program helps leaders from Christian, Jewish, Moslem, and other faith communities work within their own traditions to rebuild friendship across difference.​

Through these powerful programs, House United works to build a grassroots network of people committed and trained to build community together across difference in the U.S. and around the world.

​Rev. Dr. Allen R. Hilton, Ph.D.

The Founder and Leader of House United
After teaching perspective-diverse groups as a professor at Yale and a pastor in churches across the U.S., Allen now moves all of his energy toward “bringing people together across difference for the common good.”  In demand as a speaker, Allen’s book, A House United — How the Church Can Save the World, is a manifesto for the House United Movement in churches. He is currently writing a “How To…” book intended to help the wider American population building community in a polarized time. Allen lives in Austin, TX, with his wife Liz, their teen sons Sam and Isaac, and their labradoodle Watson.