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The Holy Spirit calls us to stand, speak, and act with greater courage to serve the most vulnerable and advance God's reign of justice and peace.
These resources can help you live out this call in prayer, discipleship, public witness, and action. You’ll find practical tools to deepen your faith, resist injustice, protect the vulnerable, and strengthen our democracy.
Liturgical + Advocacy Resources
Clergy, Prepare for ICE: Guidance from Minnesota Pastors
Minnesota pastors urge U.S. clergy to prepare now for ICE incursions. Their wisdom and experience show us how.
ICE Preparedness Checklist for Congregational Leaders (PDF) and ICE Readiness Guide for Sessions & Councils (PDF)
Resource by Leah D. Schade and Minnesota Clergy
Songs in the Key of Resistance: A Movement Songbook
Songs in the Key of Resistance: A Movement Songbook draws on a rich history of social movement music, both old and new. From Spirituals to Labor songs, from Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, to our developing Freedom Church tradition, and the music rising up from our struggles today, this compilation of movement music is meant to give people ways to join. To remember. To affirm. To honor. To rage. To celebrate. To practice new ways of being in relationship with one another and the earth. To envision and create a world that is just and habitable for future generations.
Resource by Kairos Center
Southern Lights Sunday Liturgy
A justice-centered Christian liturgy from the Southern Lights Conference that weaves prayer, scripture, and music into a communal call for resilient hope.
Resource by Southern Lights, John Francis O’Mara, and Brian McLaren
Noncooperation library
Access slides, modules, and educational videos on noncooperation tactics.
Resource by Horizons Project and Freedom Trainers
Responding to God’s Call for Mercy: A Bible Study on Immigration
This five-session Bible Study on immigration includes relevant scriptural texts and interpretative reflections, statements from the Moravian Covenant for Christian Living (MCCL), and applicable MCNP Synod resolutions. There are stories from immigrants and refugees for each session, along with tangible and practical information on immigration. This study provides a faithful overview of immigration challenges and blessings, suggestions for ways to care for immigrant and refugee neighbors, and resources for further study.
Resource by Moravian Church Northern Province
Poverty Abolitionists: Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times (BOOK)
David Beckmann's forthcoming book discusses ten effective ways to push back against MAGA and get progress against poverty going again. David is president emeritus of Bread for the World.
Resource by David Beckmann
Pax Christi USA’s Practical Actions for Peacemaking
This is a list of practical actions arranged by Pax Christi USA’s model of Prayer-Study-Action and reflects its grounding and commitment in the spirituality of nonviolence and anti-racism.
Resource by Pax Christi USA
Pax Christi USA’s “Solidarity to advocate for neighbors’ dignity (STAND)”
This is a regularly-updated webpage. In this time of discord and anxiety in the United States, as people of good will resist the violent and terrorizing actions of agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement, offers the resources below to help our members and others take action — together we pray, we study, and we act for justice rooted in Gospel nonviolence.
Resource by Pax Christi USA
Programs of Monthly Prayer Services outside ICE Headquarters in Washington, DC
These are programs of the monthly prayer services with the DC Catholic Coalition, which includes Pax Christi USA, NETWORK, Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns, Franciscan Action Network, and more.
Resource by Pax Christi USA
The Peace Current Quarterly Newsletter (mailing list)
Pax Christi USA sends Prayer-Study-Action (PSA) resources, updates, action alerts, events, and the Peace Current is their hard-copy regular newsletter with resources for prayer, study, and action for individuals, groups and parishes. Newsletters are posted here online a few weeks after being mailed.
Resource by Pax Christi USA
Educational Toolkit for Ecclesial leaders and Congregations: “White Christian Nationalism”
This presentation defines white Christian nationalism as an ideology that merges white supremacy, Christian fundamentalism, and nationalism, asserting that the United States was founded as a Christian nation specifically for white Christians. It distinguishes this ideology from broader Christian nationalism by centering race and racial hierarchy. Tracing its roots from colonialism and slavery through Jim Crow and contemporary politics, the resource argues that white Christian nationalism threatens democracy, pluralism, and social cohesion. It calls for education, civic engagement, interfaith dialogue, and justice-centered community building to counter its influence.
Resource by Rev. Dr. C.J. Koen
Spiritual Resistance. Strategic Action. Public Witness. Advocacy Toolkit for Ecclesial leaders and Congregations
The Advocacy Toolkit: Spiritual Resistance. Strategic Action. Public Witness. is a faith-based organizing guide that equips religious communities to confront authoritarianism, Christian nationalism, racism, and economic injustice. Grounded in the vision of the Beloved Community, it frames advocacy as both spiritual formation and public action. The toolkit provides theological foundations, organizing strategies, messaging guidance, and practical action models—including voter engagement, public witness, coalition-building, and policy advocacy—to strengthen democracy and promote justice.
Resource by DC4PW/DJAN Leadership Team
Mid-terms 2026: An Election Toolkit for Eclesial leaders and Congregations
Mid-terms 2026: An Election Toolkit equips faith communities with election-focused strategies for protecting pluralistic democracy and engaging in civic participation. Rooted in spiritual resistance and moral courage, it provides practical guidance for voter engagement, coalition-building, public witness, and faith-based advocacy during electoral cycles. The toolkit frames democratic participation as a sacred responsibility and calls congregations to combine theological clarity with strategic civic action.
Resource by DC4PW/DJAN Leadership Team
Free Families Toolkit
Whenever even two of us are gathered together, we create a Free Families event. These sample agendas can help you plan your own gathering. These rituals have been drawn from communities across the country. Use them in private or public settings and adapt to your context. Whether at a meal, vigil, or other gathering, these songs express our commitment to all of our families being free. Draw on these (interfaith) prayers to open or close your events or for deeper discussion about the role of faith in this moment.
Resource by Free Families
Lent devotional: Struggle & Lament
Designed for worship, study, and action, this resource equips faith leaders and communities to resist injustice and build a movement for abundance, dignity, and liberation for all.
Resource by Freedom Church of the Poor
Liturgies and Rituals: We Pray Freedom
A book of prayers, rituals, and liturgies that grows out of communities committed to abolishing poverty.
Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from activists and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul. The Freedom Church of the Poor, called for by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has existed in many forms; today it includes laborers, poor folks, pastors, organizers, and others bound together by a conviction: It does not have to be this way.
Resource by Freedom Church of the Poor
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The Call is a letter written by Christian faith leaders from diverse traditions. We name the breakdown of democracy in the United States as a spiritual and moral failure and call on all Christians to take risks for the sake of the Gospel and our democratic rights and freedoms.
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To encourage Christians across the United States to commit to taking courageous action to protect and stand with vulnerable people, love their neighbors, and speak truth to power.
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In 2026, we are facing a cruel and oppressive government; citizens and immigrants being demonized, disappeared, and even killed; the erosion of hard-won rights and freedoms; and a calculated effort to reverse America’s growing racial and ethnic diversity– all of which are pushing us toward authoritarian and imperial rule. These are serious threats unique to our current moment, and Christianity has been weaponized to justify them. As Christians, we cannot stand by and let our faith be distorted but must act with courage and conviction.
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There are dozens of ways to take action.
You can start by sharing The Call with your friends, family, elected officials and through your social media.
Then visit the “Get Involved” page and sign up to attend an upcoming training or mobilization near you. Get connected to local organizations already taking action in your community and find out how you can support their efforts. Revisit the “Spirit of God” section of the Call and check out the “Tools + Resources” page and spark your imagination as you brainstorm how to put these into practice in your community.
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Lent is a season on the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Easter, mirroring the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert after his baptism and before beginning his public ministry. It is traditionally a time when Christians engage in prayer, fasting, and charity.
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Yes, we invite all Christians to sign and share the Call.
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This is a distinctly Christian letter, written by and to Christians because of the unique and harmful ways Christian scripture and theology have been weaponized to justify the government’s cruel and oppressive actions. However, friends and allies from other faith traditions are invited to share the statement with their networks.
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Yes! Please share the Call far and wide, and visit the “Communications Tools” section to find materials.