What happens when faith stops being about rules and starts being about justice? We’re going live on Instagram with Bryan Epps, Chief Program & Impact Officer at SojoAction, and Ciarra Jones, CEO & Founder of Ciarra Jones Consulting, to talk about faith, justice, and belonging 🔥

✨ Peek inside this week’s Truth and Action Roundup ✨ Every Friday, TARU delivers faith-rooted news, reflection, and action straight to your inbox. 📩 Subscribe: sojo.net/taru

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SojoAction was busy this Saturday. We showed up for the “We Are All DC” march and then spent some time sharing a meal with the community and many partners at the Beloved Community Banquet. 👉🏽 What are some ways you are showing up in your community?

Next Saturday 🙏🏽 Join SojoAction + several partners for the Beloved Community Banquet. A free meal where love, joy, and resilience come alive. 📅 Sept 6 | 🕓 4–7 PM 📍 Walker Memorial Baptist Church We are a community that will not be silenced 💜

Over 3,900 people have already signed the petition to end the blockade in Gaza. Every hour without aid means more lives lost. Sign the petition today, make your voice heard 📣 Visit sojo.net/blockade #EndTheBlockade

🚨 New polling is clear: 8 in 10 oppose Trump’s occupation and 72% support D.C. statehood. The people have spoken. This is more than numbers, it’s a mandate. Our communities are calling for dignity, democracy, and self-determination. ✊🏽 Add your voice: sojo.net/freedc #FreeDC #DefendDemocracy

🙏🏼 TONIGHT join SojoAction & faith leaders at Columbia Heights Plaza for a Prayer Vigil against federal overreach. 🕓 4:30 PM gathering | 5:00-6:00 PM service We are not afraid. We will defend D.C. RSVP here: bit.ly/dc-prayer

🙏🏼 This Thursday, join SojoAction & faith leaders at Columbia Heights Plaza for a Prayer Vigil against federal overreach. 🕓 4:30 PM gathering | 5:00-6:00 PM service We are not afraid. We will defend D.C. RSVP here: buff.ly/oHZWXxD #PrayerVigil #DefendDC #SojoAction

As people of faith, we cannot stay silent. Leaders are called to govern with justice, peace, and truth, not fear and force. Tell Congress: End the occupation in the District of Columbia! 🔗 Take Action Here: sojo.net/freedc

🚨 Washington, DC is under occupation. The President’s false “crime” claims and militarization are a direct assault on self-rule and democracy. 📢 Tell Congress: End the occupation in DC.

💻 Meet Your Moderators! Join us Aug 5 at 7PM ET for Engage & Adapt as we discuss Medicaid & SNAP changes. 💥 Chad Stanton, Political Director 💥 Rev. Moya Harris, Sr. Dir. of Programs 📍 Tools for faith leaders & advocates 🔗 sojo.net/engage

"Justice, in this vision, does not trickle; instead, justice flows like a mighty torrent. It saturates. It sustains. But in Gaza today, this metaphor is hollow. How can 'justice roll down like waters' when water itself is under siege?" sojo.net/magazine/sep...

🚨 ACTION ALERT: An estimated 80,000 dead. Gaza is starving. Christians under attack. Tell Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump: End the blockade. End the killing. 🕊️ Every life is sacred. Take action: sojo.net/blockade

👋🏽 Remember TARU? It’s back. Originally launched during the chaos of 2020, SojoAction’s Truth and Action Roundup is now a weekly newsletter delivering: 📰 Faith-rooted news 📖 Spiritual reflection ✊🏾 Action steps 📚 Must-reads from prophetic voices. Sojo.net/taru

Faith leaders, our communities need you. As programs like Medicaid and SNAP face uncertainty, SojoAction invites you to a new webinar series: Engage and Adapt. We’re equipping faith leaders to organize, lead, and prepare for what’s ahead. 🗓️ Join us Aug 5 @ 7PM ET. 🖥 RSVP: sojo.net/engage

🇺🇸 To truly love America is to hold it accountable. Liberty and justice for ALL isn’t just a promise—it’s a responsibility. A responsibility to remind our country that everyone who calls this land home deserves safety, freedom, and belonging. #julyfourth

There is still time! We pray for our leaders to do what is right but we must also call and tell them to VOTE NO on H.R.1 Budget Bill 🚫 📲 visit sojo.net/bill to contact congress

🚨 We need your help to urge Representatives to vote NO on this bill! ❌ To VOTE NO on cuts to Medicaid ❌ To VOTE NO on cuts to SNAP ❌ To VOTE NO on cuts to Headstart ❌ To VOTE NO on funding ICE ❌ To VOTE NO on this BIG BAD BILL Call your House Representative 202-224-3121 ☎️

The Senate may have passed the big, bad bill but the fight is not over! There is still time to jump into action ⬇️ ☎️ dial 202-224-3121, make your voice heard and tell your representative to vote no on this terrible bill ❌

🚨 Thousands are suffering after Trump, with Elon Musk’s support, illegally slashed USAID — cutting off food and medical aid to those most in need. Now he wants to make the cuts permanent.
Congress must act. Tell them to restore USAID ➡️ sojo.net/usaid

We're going live on Instagram! 📲 Join @sojoaction Thursday at 2 p.m. CST for a convo on faith-rooted justice in real life with @josephyoo + Bryan Epps. Think radical welcome, unexpected holiness, and justice lived out loud. 🕑 Don’t miss it: instagram.com/sojoaction

#Juneteenth reminds us: freedom was declared, but not fully delivered. As people of faith, we don’t just commemorate freedom—we fight for the fullness of it. May this day remind us that true liberation is sacred, ongoing work. 🖤✊🏾

Trump’s deportation machine is expanding— ICE raids, marines in LA, peaceful protesters detained. Now Congress wants to give him billions more to escalate. We cannot be silent. Email your senator: Vote NO on this bill. ✊🏼 Sojo.net/protect

🚨 The Senate is considering a bill that gives $150 BILLION to arrest, detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. This bill raises asylum fees, taxes remittances & fuels injustice. Reject detention dollars. Protect our communities. ✉️ Email your Senators: sojo.net/protect

📣 Happening TODAY! Join us at 7pm ET / 4pm PT for Faithful Conversations: Leading in Divided Times. Topic: Why hasn’t the American church made more progress in addressing racism? Register at sojo.net/convo

It was a powerful Pentecost Witness at the Capitol. Faith leaders + communities gathered in song, prayer, & truth-telling. The work isn’t done—but when people of faith unite, hope rises. Let us continue demanding a moral budget for our nation ✊🏽🙏🏽

🕊️ Join us live from the U.S. Capitol for the Pentecost Witness for a Moral Budget. Faith leaders and community members are lifting their voices to defend programs that serve the poor, sick, and hungry.  📱 Watch the livestream here.

🔥 Pentecost Witness 🔥 Before Pentecost, the disciples hid in fear. After, they boldly stepped into the streets. On June 10, we do the same. Join clergy & people of faith at the Capitol to demand a moral budget that protects the vulnerable. #PentecostWitness

Why hasn’t the American church made more progress in addressing racism? Join us for a powerful conversation on June 12 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT 🎙️ Dr. Derek McNeil, Jimmy McGee, and Dr. Jemar Tisby, Moderated by Rebecca Wheeler-Walston. 📲 Register Here: sojo.net/convo

Join us in Washington, D.C. on June 10 where faith leaders will gather and move with the power of Pentecost. Together we will stand for truth, justice and the vulnerable as we demand a moral budget. 🕊️✊🏼 Register at sojo.net/pentecost

Nearly 11 million people, including 4 million children, are at risk of losing food aid under the House’s budget bill. As people of faith, we must speak up for justice. Jesus said, “I was hungry and you gave me food.” A faithful nation does not abandon the vulnerable. 📢 Take action: sojo.net/snap

Every person is made in God’s image. Caring for the sick is sacred. Congress wants to slash $715B from Medicaid—8.6M lives at risk. 📢 This is a moral crisis, not just policy. Join faith leaders: Demand Congress #SaveMedicaid visit sojo.net/medicaid

Congress is working out their budgets and it is important to hear from you in order to make sure we save Head Start. Visit sojo.net/headstart to email your Senators and Representative. #SaveHeadstart

Andry, a loving friend and asylum seeker detained in California, was forcefully taken by federal agents, stripped of belongings and rights, forced into CECOT, a mega-prison in El Salvador in April, without due process. It is time for the administration to #FreeAndry

🚨 Programs like Medicaid, Head Start, & SNAP are more than safety nets, they are the foundation that supports families through hard times, ensuring access to healthcare, education, and food. Without them, millions of children, elderly, and disabled individuals would suffer.

This week there are three congressional hearings that will determine the fate of low-income Americans who are reliant on programs such as Medicaid, Head Start and SNAP to survive. 📲Call your member of Congress and urge them to not cut the funding for these programs!

The hands that carried children through war.The hands that cooked, cleaned, marched, built. This #MothersDay, we rise for immigrant mothers. #TogetherWeRise #RefugeesWelcome #ImmigrantsWelcome #DefendRefuge #WeAreAllAmerica

Our final Faithful Witness Wednesday was a fruitful! Thank you to all who used their voice of #moralcourage Our President Rev. Adam Taylor, along with other faith leaders hand delivered a letter signed by our faith partners and organizations calling for Congressional courage.

FAITHFUL WITNESS WEDNESDAY IS HERE! Today is the day the Lord has made and we will gather to make our voices heard. Please visit our SojoAction Youtube page to join us LIVE at 12PM ET. sojoaction.net/witness #moralcourage #faithfulwitnesswednesdays

Join us on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:00 PM ET, for a conversation with the Workers Circle and Ari Berman, voting rights expert and award-winning author and journalist at Mother Jones! lnkd.in/gagiGh2c

Don't miss the final Faithful Witness Wednesday Wednesday, April 30th Noon ET Upper Senate Park and Online Visit sojo.net/witness to register.

Join us for Faithful Witness Wednesday Noon ET • Visit sojo.net/witness to register. #moralcourage

Join us in front of the Capitol TODAY at noon ET or on youtube for Faithful Witness Wednesdays. Register here: bit.ly/SOJOFWW

I hope you can join us tomorrow and every Wednesday this month!

Faithful Witness Wednesdays are back! Watch the video from our President, @revadamtaylor.bsky.social and then be sure to join us every Wednesday at noon in April in front of the U.S. Capitol or online via youtube. Register here: bit.ly/SOJOFWW

THIS WEDNESDAY! Friends in the #DC area: Our CEO Sally Vonner will be speaking at Faithful Witness Wednesdays. Join us and @umcjustice.bsky.social at 11:30 a.m. (ET) at the United Methodist Building. Wear your UWFaith gear and help call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage. #UMC #BeUMC

We join too with @nccusa.bsky.social, @sojoaction.bsky.social, @unitedchurch.bsky.social, @pcusa.bsky.social, @uusj.bsky.social, @interfaithalliance.org, @cdf1973.bsky.social, @faithinaction.bsky.social, @nrcat.bsky.social, @sisters-of-mercy.bsky.social and more for #FaithfulWitnessWednesday.

Happening Tonight!

Faithful Conversations: Leading in Divided Times Join Sojourners on Thurs. April 10th at 7pm ET for a virtual conversation on how to lead faith communities with love and grace during a polarized cultural and political climate. RSVP here: act.sojo.net/page/80924/s...