The National Convergence for Democracy is a three-day gathering in Minneapolis, MN from Friday, August 21 to Sunday, August 23 led by Tending the Soil and designed to bring together community, grassroots, and frontline organizers and leaders from across the country who want to skill-share and coordinate the next iteration of democracy defense in the United States.
The faith-organizing stream is one of four streams at the National Convergence for Democracy. Convergence attendees will share learning within and across tracks.
FAITH LEADERS ANSWERING HISTORY
IN A TIME OF PERIL AND POSSIBILITY
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Faith communities have long played critical roles in movements for democracy, human dignity, and collective liberation. They offer more than volunteers and institutional resources. They cultivate moral imagination, sustain communities through crisis, provide practices that nurture courage and resilience, and help people act together in ways that challenge injustice while affirming human dignity. Drawing on lessons from Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge and from faith-rooted movements across traditions, the Faith Stream— led by MARCH and Jewish Community Action and facilitated by multiracial and multifaith leaders across the Twin Cities— will explore how religious and spiritual communities can strengthen resistance to authoritarianism while helping build the democratic future we seek.
Join Tending the Soil and faith leaders from the Twin Cities who led and offered solidarity with targeted communities through Operation Metro Surge, issued January’s nationwide Call to Minneapolis, stood up community-centered mutual-aid networks, held up the indigeneity of Mni Sota Makoce, provided spiritual care to sustain the resistance, and went to federal court to win the right to offer pastoral care to federal detainees.
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