The holidays bring food, family, and… complicated conversations. Join us on Nov 19 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT for Grace at the Table, as we explore: “How do we turn tense conversations during the holidays into moments of witness and wisdom?” Register here: sojo.net/convo

Send this to your favorite Veteran or tag them below 🤍 #VeteransDay #Honor #SojoAction

Tomorrow! Join us for Part 3 of the Engage & Adapt webinar series — Nov 11, 7PM ET. With special guest Charlyn Anderson (Starting with Today) and our Political Director, Chad Stanton. RSVP 👉🏼 sojo.net/engage

🎙️ Don’t miss this creative, faith-filled dialogue with Azmera Hammouri-Davis and Michael-Ray Mathews on how art and faith can help us build a more just world. Instagram Live conversation happening Wednesday, November 5th at 1:30PM ET. 📲 instagram.com/sojoaction #SojoAction #FaithAndJustice

Join the SojoAction Book Club as we dive into Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. A visionary story that challenges us to plant seeds of change in our communities. ✨ Book Study Launch: November 6 🔗 Register at sojo.net/octavia #SojoAction #ParableOfTheSower #FaithInAction #BookClub

Next week, join us LIVE on Instagram with John & Samuel Munayer, authors of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology amid Gaza 🕊️ A conversation on faith, justice & peace amid the ongoing realities of occupation and conflict. 🎥 instagram.com/sojoaction

Happening today at 3PM ET! 🕒 Learn how faith communities can defend against deportation and stand with immigrants. 💻 Webinar in Spanish, with English interpretation. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/AC9URW8

Today is the day! Join the Georgetown University Center on Faith + Justice, Sojourners, Interfaith Alliance, and The Horizons Project for Interfaith Nonviolent Civil Resistance 101, happening tonight from 8 to 9:30 PM ET.

Join Rev. Adam Russell Taylor for a conversation exploring how faith fuels justice in difficult times. If you’re in DC, join in person or watch online! 📅 Oct 22 | 7 PM ET 🔗 nyapc.org/taylor

What does justice look like when freedom is taken away? Join Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, Associate Professor of Applied Theology at Howard University School of Divinity, for a conversation exploring the intersection of justice, incarceration, and faith. 📲 sojo.net/trulear

🕊️ Join us Oct 22, 8–9:30 PM ET for Interfaith Nonviolent Civil Resistance 101. A virtual training equipping faith leaders to confront authoritarianism and defend democracy through nonviolence. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/njEJWF0 #FaithInAction #Nonviolence #SojoAction

✨ Meet Trinity! ✨ We’re excited to welcome our new SojoAction Fellow from the Cycle 42 Sojourners cohort. Her gifts are already making an impact, and we’re grateful to have her on the team! 👏🏽

Together we uplift the Native voices and Histories that made and continue to make this land resilient. #indigenouspeoplesday

Next Saturday: Oct 18 ✊🏽 Join peaceful demonstrations across the country to say #NoKings SojoAction is a proud partner and will be at the DC No Kings event. Find an event near you + make your voice heard. nokings.org

"May we remember to listen, to see, and to honor the divine spark in every person we meet" ✨🖋️ An excerpt from the writings of Senior Director of Programs, Reverend Moya Harris. 👇🏽 Receive these inspiring reflections in your inbox every Friday 📧 Subscribe Here: Sojo.net/TARU

⏰ We’re just one week away from the next Engage and Adapt session! Join us on October 14 at 7PM ET as we continue equipping faith leaders to act with power and moral courage in this moment of change. ✨ Register now at sojo.net/engage

🌟 What is SojoAction? 🌟 SojoAction is the advocacy and mobilizing branch of Sojourners. We are a faith-rooted community committed to social justice, building hope, and making a difference in the world. ✨ Join the movement and take action for a more just and compassionate society! 💛 #sojoaction

Rev. Moya Harris, stood alongside Creation Justice Ministries and other national faith partners to call for bold climate action and justice. May we continue to stand with the prophetic harmony crying out: “Restore. Renew. Reimagine” 🌏

Meet Trinity Williams, our Policy and Action Assistant Fellow ✨ This past week her and some of our SojoAction team attended the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations 54th Annual Legislative Conference in D.C. Made For This Moment: Power, Policy, Progress 👏🏽 #ALC54 #CBCF #MadeForThisMoment

Didn't get TARU to your email yesterday? No worries, here's a recap of some things we covered this week! Be sure to subscribe to get next week's editions straight to your email. 📩 Subscribe Here: sojo.net/taru

As democracy faces attack, people of faith are rising together ✊🏾 Tomorrow, Sept. 25 at 5:30 PM, join us at Asbury UMC DC for From Ashes to Beloved Community, a national interfaith solidarity service of lament, resistance, and hope. 🔗 livestreamed event: buff.ly/6dT14D7

Rick Steves is helping amplify justice beyond the noise of oppression. 📣 Give to SojoAction today, and your gift will be doubled through his $50k match. We’re already halfway to our goal. Join us in making justice louder. sojo.net/steves-sab

Ana Flores reminds us: heritage is more than celebration, it’s protection, honoring, and standing alongside one another. This #HispanicHeritageMonth, we celebrate and uplift stories that shape us all.

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

At SojoAction, we stand with those who are resilient. Together, we carry this work forward, and the impact is collective. Visit sojo.net/donate to help us keep this work alive.

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 ✊🏽🙏🏽