Collective Care for Clergy on the Frontlines of Justice

Collective Care for Clergy on the Frontlines of Justice (Clergy4Justice) is a gathering space for clergy serving congregations, engaged in community organizing, protecting human and civil rights, advocating for antiracism and antibias trainings, and participating in uprisings across the country against ICE invasions and authoritarianism policies and practices.

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Your presence in threatening and challenging spaces is a balm and a blessing because you show up, stand with, and protect God’s human family. You are bridge builders working towards movements of solidarity with our immigrant, African American, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American (South and Central), Mexican, Caribbean, nonbinary, Queer, and BIPOC siblings.

Collective care is foundational for collective liberation. We give thanks for the gifts of holistic community care from our Native and Indigenous wisdom healers, Black and Brown abolitionists, and culturally diverse kindom creators. Collective care includes practices of resistance—theological, biblical, and spiritual rooted in abolitionist values centering centuries of sacred practices from cultures of color.

“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.”

—bell hooks Lent V | SOLIDARITY Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies Prayers Poems and Meditations for Staying Human

Community care gatherings are foundational, historical, and an essential spiritual practice. Spiritual nurturance and soul care promote human thriving and communal survival.

You are invited to gather quarterly with amazing UCC clergy on the frontlines. Gatherings are intended to cultivate spiritual bonds of connection, strengthen relationships of trust, accountability, and support. You have been caring for others in diverse capacities; this is space for you to be cared for.

“[Collective liberation] is the eschatology for a theology that claims all life is entangled, inseparable, permeable, eternally woven together. It rejects individualism. Celebrates collaboration. And acknowledges the difficulty of the fact that we need each other.” – enfleshed, What We Mean by Collective Liberation

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Thank you for your interest in Racial Justice Ministries Collective Care for Clergy on the Frontlines for Justice. Our team’s hope is that these quarterly gatherings support you as you do the work of justice. Collective Care for Clergy gatherings provide opportunities to nurture our souls, develop self-care and healing practices, and strengthen bonds of trust through mutual respect and deep listening. They are also a space for learning how to be with our siblings’ experiencing threats of violence from ICE agents, detainment and deportation, xenophobia and racism, and invasive acts of interrogation and intimidation. Thank you for taking the time to fill out this registration form so that we can create learning and practice cohorts that support your flourishing!

“May we be filled with a strength that rises not from the clash of arms but from quiet courage.

Let us hold the weight of love like an offering, knowing that true power lies in the gentle persistence to heal, to soften, to mend what has been broken. In the tender pursuit of peace, we find resilience to endure, to breathe, and to be.”

—Kat Armas, Liturgies for Resisting Empire

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