Faith and Justice Update | December 2024
Imagining Life TogetherDecember 2024 After an amazing fall season, we are looking with great anticipation to 2025. This January, we will gather once again in San Francisco to imagine life together as a way to move with faith into the future. Hahrie Han, Paula Williams, Yii-Jan Lin, and Angela Parker will guide us into a new season of learning about the work of justice. Imagination is a powerful discipline of hope, enabling us to envision spiritual community in an ever-evolving world. As Christena Cleveland reminds us, “Imagination is theology; we can only believe what we can imagine.” Fueled by our anger at oppressive realities, imagination moves us toward a collective vision for transformation. This holy and creative act can unlock new pathways for action and justice. We hope you'll join us as we reflect on the future of faith by imagining life together.
Our Spring Focus on Justice will Feature Books on Politics, Sexuality, Immigration, and RaceWhat does Christian faith have to say about politics and love of neighbor? Gender and trans identity? Immigration and how we relate to foreigners? Racial hierarchy and violence? It turns out a great deal. From February through May, we will tackle these challenging, urgent, and vital topics to embody a faith that calls us to love and justice. Four important recent books by Hahrie Han, Paula Williams, Yii-Jan Lin, and Angela Paker will guide our conversations.
The Faith and Justice PodcastIn the latest episode of the Faith and Justice Podcast, Angie Hong and Peter Choi discuss Christena Cleveland’s book, God Is a Black Woman, by retracing the progression of her public writings beginning with her first book, Disunity in Christ. Topics include whitemalegod, the Sacred Black Feminine, immigrant culture, grounding practices, and Christmas music.
Please Consider a Year-End GiftWe have had a wonderful year with new and ongoing initiatives for laypersons, seminarians, and preachers. The work happening at Faith and Justice is more needed than ever in our divided times. We talk about faith deconstruction and disorientation, ask what it looks like to preach justice, explore God and theology through the lens of blackness and femininity, encourage open exploration across lines of difference to avoid identitarian pitfalls, foster communal spaces for deep relational formation, and much more. Your support makes this work possible. Please consider a year-end gift to help our work flourish in the new year.
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September 2026 Kicking Off the Year on the Network and at Spark Lab NYC The Multivocal Chorus at Our Fall Gathering This past week, our fellows, Network members, partners, and new friends gathered for Spark Lab NYC, a three-day gathering exploring how stories can ignite faith and justice. The Riverside Church has a remarkable legacy of faith in public life, from Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1967 address to generations of congregants who have gathered there to imagine a more just world....
Dear Reader, We are turning a new page at the Center for Faith and Justice, and we want you to be among the first to hear about an important next step: CFJ is now an independent nonprofit. The change may sound administrative; what it makes possible is not. It gives CFJ a stronger foundation from which our work can grow and evolve. We are especially grateful to City Church San Francisco, whose creative vision helped make CFJ’s work possible and brought us to this milestone. What will not...
February 2026 Faith and Justice Awarded Key Role in $5M Lilly Endowment Storytelling Grant The Center for Faith and Justice is honored to serve as a key partner in a collaborative project awarded a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. As part of the National Faith Storytelling Initiative, this effort builds on a theological framework we have cultivated for many years, centered on the pluriformity of the Gospel endings, to launch FIRE: Multivocal Expressions of Faith. FIRE seeks to...