Faith in Democracy
Spiritual Activism Resources

Article Series:
Faith & Democracy - The Role of Religion in Forming a More Perfect Union

Left: Suffragists in the state of Georgia, taken in 1919, a year before the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended the right to vote to women, was ratified.

Right: KKK is welcomed to a Baptist Church service in Portland, Oregon, 1922.

F&D #1. Come to Selma: What the Famed March to Montgomery Has to Teach Us About the Intersection of Faith and Democracy.
F&D #2. Pastor Olden: How My Grandfather's Quiet Faith Shaped His Involvement in the Struggle Against Segregation in 1963 Birmingham.
F&D #3. Jimmie and James: How Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder by Officer James Fowler triggered the Selma march and led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
F&D #4. Mary’s Table: How my grandmother used Sunday dinner to teach her family about the nature of both the Beloved Community and democracy.
F&D #5. Democracy MUST Go: Why structuring society so that it only works for some of us ultimately results in one that works for none of us.

Films

Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy, 2024 (watch for free on TUBI)
God & Country, 2024 (watch for free on Amazon Prime/Freevee)
American Heretics, 2019 (watch for free on Amazon Prime/Freevee)

Engagement Opportunities

Christian Faith and Democracy Pledge
Faiths United to Save Democracy
Faithful Democracy
Faith in Elections playbook
Center for American Progress (CAP) Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on America

Further Reading

God's Politics with Jim Wallace
Stuff that Needs to be Said, by John Pavlovitz
SHADOW NETWORK: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, Anne Nelson, 2019
BAD FAITH: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right, Randall Balmer, 2021
THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, Katherine Stewart, 2020
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND – How the Greatest Sociological Shift in United States History is Changing Everything. And What that Change Requires of Us, RD Moore, 2024

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