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 (i.e. lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates); and the unequal treatment of people of color 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. But we believe there’s a stirring among people of faith, a hunger, for racial justice and healing. Many just aren’t sure how to go about it and could use a partner along the way.
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Interwoven Congregations Network!
Interwoven Congregations is dedicated to helping faith communities be agents for racial justice and healing. To that end, we are building the Interwoven Congregations Network -- a network of faith communities where congregations can access racial justice tools and events, and connect with other faith leaders and congregants from around the country who are striving, as an authentic expression of their faith, for racial justice. As you learn more about the Network, you'll see that it has to do with trees! We're stronger together!
Helping Congregations take Four Steps
We believe that there are four key elements for congregations in the work for racial justice. Open up the Congregational Toolkit to access resources for each phase of this work!
What's coming up!
Join us for the next Interwoven Congregations Roundtable (on Zoom) on August 28th! In the first half of the event, we'll share a series of tools aimed at helping congregations get out of the gate in their work for racial justice -- how to gauge where your congregation is in its antiracism journey, how to undertake an antiracism assessment of your faith community; and how to develop an antiracism policy that serves as a catalyst for congregational and personal action.
We can't do this without you.
Growing the Congregational Network. Building out the Congregational Toolkit. Hosting congregational forums in cities across the country. Organizing online events to equip congregations for the work of racial justice. 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.
We can't do any of that without you. So if this work is important to you and your congregation, we invite you to make a financial donation to Interwoven Congregations today and invest in the work for racial justice and healing.
Thank you.