Helping congregations be agents for racial justice and healing.
Our calling is now.
Systemic racism continues to hold a grip on our nation. We see this enduring reality through the widening wealth gap between blacks and whites; disparate health impacts for people of color; and unequal treatment in the criminal justice system—to name just a few examples. Over the centuries, white faith communities have been deeply complicit in this story of oppression, the effects of which continue today. We believe, however, that there’s a stirring among people of faith, a hunger for racial justice and healing. But we face four challenges.
Four Challenges
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Many of us have a limited understanding about the systemic nature and ongoing impacts of racism;
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Our worship spaces are largely segregated, dividing us further along the lines of race;
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Many congregations are unsure of how to go about advancing racial justice; and
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We all can struggle to sustain our efforts for racial justice.
The Interwoven Response
Interwoven Congregations is dedicated to helping faith communities of all traditions be agents for racial justice and healing. We have developed our services and products to specifically address the four challenges above in the following ways:
The Interwoven Congregations Network
In August 2025, Interwoven launched the Interwoven Congregations Network -- a global online community where individuals (at least 16 years of age), congregations, networks of congregations, and antiracism coalitions can access antiracism resources and collaborate and mutually support one another.* As you'll find out, this involves both people and trees!
Upcoming Events
2,816 miles.* 11 cities. 10 Congregational Forums.
How far are we willing to go for racial justice and healing?
At a time when leaders in the U.S. are actively working to rollback progress for racial justice and even expunge the vital contributions of African Americans to our national story, Interwoven Congregations reaffirms that efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion and other forms of racial justice are essential if we are to live into the precepts of our faith traditions (i.e., everyone is a child of God and we are to love our neighbor) and our founding civic creeds. So we are embarking on an 11-city tour to highlight local racial justice efforts and the NEW online Interwoven Congregations Network! If you live or can commute to one of the tour cities, RSVP for one of the (free) in-person congregational forums! (Click on a forum to RSVP!) And if you haven't signed up yet for the Interwoven Congregations Network, why not join today?
(*10,562 miles if I count door-to-door from Groningen.)
We can't do this without you.
Working with individual and groups of congregations. Organizing online and in-person events. Developing the Congregational Toolkit. Launching and growing the new Interwoven Congregations Network. Publishing deep interviews in the Interwoven Congregations Quarterly. Standing up for the values of diversity, equity and inclusion in our current climate of racial justice backlash.
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We can't do any of that without you. So if this work is important to you and your congregation, we invite you to join the Interwoven Congregations Network today and make a financial donation to invest in the work for racial justice and healing.
Thank you!
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Rev. Pat Jackson
Interwoven Congregations
