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05/16/2026

The week in news, viewed through faith and justice. ✨ This is TARU — the Truth and Action Roundup.

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05/15/2026

🗣️ New Jersey Family: if you're in the area, join our Chief Program and Impact Officer Bryan Epps and this incredible lineup of speakers at Bethany Baptist Church-Newark for a conversation on faith, justice and society.

Register here: https://buff.ly/Q8eBt0U

05/14/2026

Beyond Representation: Belonging and Power in the AAPI Faith

05/14/2026

✊🏽National Day of Action for Voting Rights

All Roads Lead to the South
MAY 16, 2026 | Montgomery, Alabama

05/13/2026

📍 National Day of Action for Voting Rights

The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. If you're in Alabama, please consider joining in person. For those who cannot attend, spread the word!

visit sojo.net/dayofaction

05/12/2026

Sojourners is hosting a timely conversation with Dr. Maria Stephan (The Horizons Project) on how people of faith can resist authoritarianism, bridge divides, and help protect democracy through nonviolent action and community power.

The Faith Factor in Defeating Authoritarianism
🗓 Wednesday, May 13
⏰ 1PM ET / 10AM PT
🔗 https://buff.ly/3HQQb77

Moderated by Sojourners President Adam Russell Taylor (Adam Russell Taylor)

05/11/2026

Join us TONIGHT at 7:00 PM ET for a mass call where community leaders across the country will gather to discuss how best to engage with sheriffs directly, demand transparency, and push for policies that protect constitutional rights and immigrant communities.

Sojourners - Faith in Action for Social Justice

05/11/2026

Join us for the next Bridging Divides conversation Beyond Representation: Belonging and Power in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Faith.

Together we’ll explore what it means to move beyond visibility alone and toward real belonging, shared leadership and faithful power in AAPI faith communities.

🗓️ Thursday May 14
⏰ 7PM ET/ 4PM PT

05/07/2026

Naming Misogynoir: Gender, Power and Patriarchy in the Black Church

05/01/2026

This week, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana v. Callais, narrowing one of the key tools communities have used to challenge racially discriminatory voting maps.

For decades, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has helped communities challenge voting maps that dilute the political power of Black voters and other voters of color. In Louisiana, Black voters make up roughly one-third of the state’s population, but the map at the center of this case would have protected only one majority-Black congressional district. After years of litigation, Louisiana adopted a map with a second majority-Black district. The Supreme Court has now struck that map down.

This matters because voting rights are not only about whether someone can cast a ballot. They are also about whether communities have a meaningful opportunity to be represented.

The NAACP has called this decision a voting rights crisis. Voting rights advocates are warning that it opens the door for more racially discriminatory maps, especially when racial discrimination is hidden behind claims of partisan mapmaking.

For people of faith, this is a moral issue. Democracy is not only a system of government; it is a commitment to the dignity, voice, and agency of our neighbors. When communities are silenced, when representation is diluted, when hard-won protections are weakened, we are called to pay attention and respond.

04/24/2026

Misogynoir is not just cultural, it’s theological and structural.

Join us for the next Bridging Divides webinar as we name its impact in our faith spaces and imagine gender justice as a spiritual practice rooted in truth, courage, and joy.

🗓 May 7
⏰ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Featuring Rev. Dr. Amey Jones Adkins and Bishop Erika D. Crawford.

🔗 Register at sojo.net/bridging