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, 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
Join us for the next Interwoven Congregations Roundtable (on Zoom) on August 28th! The Roundtable will include:
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Sharing tools to help congregations get out of the gate in their antiracism work, such as how to gauge where you are in your 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.
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We'll do a brief demo of the new Interwoven Congregations Network!
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​We'll close with the Peer Exchange, where congregations can share what's going well in their antiracism work and where they may be stuck or in need of new ideas. It's a time to support one another!
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
