It's a call for our time.
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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 African Americans during Covid 19, child birth, and climate change; and the 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. 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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Are you ready to take the next step?
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How we Work
The mission of Interwoven Congregations is to help faith communities in the U.S. become agents for racial justice and healing -- within their congregations, in their community, and across society at large. We support faith communities as they: ​​
Build Relationships
Take Action
Watch our Review of 2023! (5 mins)
Take a Civil Rights Pilgrimage
(You can do it in 10 minutes!)
If you'd like to stand at the resting place for Dr. King and Corretta Scott King, enter the sanctuary of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, walk the Edmund Pettus Bridge, gaze up at the hanging bronze markers of the Equal Justice Initiative's Peace and Justice Memorial, and hear the reflections of our pilgrimage participants along the way (spoken AND in song!), here's all of that in a 10 minute video.
Catch the Webinars
On Thursday, June 13th we hosted a webinar on how congregations can, in a non-partisan way, help ensure that ALL people can vote in the 2024 presidential election -- with a special emphasis on voters who have been historically disenfranchised. Catch the recording here to see how your faith community can be involved!
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On April 25th, Janet Thompson Jackson
led a valuable webinar on "Understanding
and Healing Racial Trauma." If you missed
the live webinar, you can view the recording
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Follow the Series!
Follow our 4-part series on Doing Racial Justice. It began with The Apology and Congregations Doing Racial Justice!
Next up: Reparations and What Does Racial Justice Look Like for Native Americans?
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Sometimes life intrudes. So we are pausing our series with a special issue concerning the situation in Israel-Palestine. Please join us for a personal, heartfelt conversation with Rev. Sari Ateek (a native of Palestine) and Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky.
About Us
The Governing Board of Interwoven Congregations:
Brother John Anderson
Charles Booker
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Monique Bryant
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Pat Jackson
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Roxane Rucker
Nadia Subaran
The Governing Board first convened in February 2020 to establish the mission of Interwoven Congregations: to help faith communities become agents of racial justice and healing in the United States.
We our honored to have Ambassador Andrew Young and other leading voices serve on the Interwoven Congregations Advisory Board.
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Rev. Pat Jackson serves as the Executive Director of Interwoven Congregations.
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Contact Us
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Find out more about how your faith community could participate as an Interwoven Congregation.
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Sign the pledge to affirm your congregation's commitment to racial justice and healing.
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Subscribe to Interwoven Congregations Quarterly (free), a journal designed to encourage, challenge and sustain you in your work for racial justice and healing.
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Receive the Congregational Antiracism Quotient Survey to help your faith community gauge where you are in your antiracism journey today and what your next steps might be.
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