Faith communities engage in practices that have a unique role to play in creating Loving Community. We pray, make music, care for each other, engage in rituals, preach and teach, study scriptures, practice hospitality, create networks of knowledge and connection, and the list goes on. These activities are integral to inspiring our moral imagination and feeding our spirit power. They are critical for personal and community transformation.
The idea here is that faith communities do not need to set up social service organizations or health clinics, though these are good things to do. The activities that congregations already engage in are powerful resources for creating Loving Community. Addressing the social determinants of health may have less to do with faith communities creating organizations and more to do with them recognizing their unique voice and contribution and bringing them into the community. The Center’s work is figuring out how congregations are bringing their natural gifts into the community already and to help them do this even more.
The Center integrates faith language and practice into all of our activities and programs. We take faith practices seriously and believe that when we trust in the wisdom of our faith traditions and participate in the rituals, language and action that are at the heart of our traditions, we unleash a powerful resource for transformation.
