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Our Mission

Who we are

We are a network of progressive Christians who live out our faith by taking bold, prophetic action for a more equitable, free, and loving world.

Our members come from all Christian denominations and none. Some of us are regular church-goers, some of us are not. But we all believe in following Jesus' example by integrating community, spiritual practice, and collective action to demonstrate love for our neighbors and to resist those twisting our faith to cause them harm.

If you're someone who is inspired by the teachings of Jesus, seeking a community of progressive Christians, and wanting to organize and build power in the service of love and social justice, you'll be right at home here.

What we do:

We educate, organize, and mobilize social-justice Christians to advance Jesus' prophetic vision of God's Kingdom and to challenge White Christian Nationalism and all the ways it harms our neighbors, our faith, and our democracy.

We cultivate communities of solidarity and build grassroots, collective power to effectively transform unjust systems and ideologies that are built and sustained by those in power -- whether they be faith leaders, politicians, or corporations.

What we believe:

We believe that our faith in God's love for all people puts us at odds with any attempts by the American empire to place profits over people, order over justice, and war over peace.

We believe we are called to use our time, talents, and treasure to build a Beloved Community where we honor everyone's inherent dignity and worth -- a community where we all have what we need to thrive.

As Faithful America members, we:

  • We affirm God's love for all people and the inherent dignity, worth, and value of all human beings.
  • We name that loving our neighbors means that we strive to love ourselves as well, committing ourselves to the work of healing, growth, and holistic care.
  • We believe in the power of love to make all things new, including the conflict and division we hold with our enemies.
  • We confess that Christianity has a long, blemished history of supporting empire and wrongfully using the name of Jesus to justify violent and corrupt systems of oppression.
  • We lament that many Christians continue to cause harm to marginalized communities both with their unloving action and complicit inaction.
  • We repent of these sins by taking responsibility for our shortcomings, repairing relationships when possible, and following the leadership of impacted communities in our pursuit of justice and truth.
  • We believe that the entirety of Scripture, the Gospels, and the teachings of Jesus speak clearly to God's commitment to social justice and God's desire to restore, reconcile, and redeem all things.
  • We affirm God's preferential option for the poor and God's desire to heal the world through and with the very marginalized people and communities empire has rejected.
  • We seek to follow the example of the prophets, Jesus, the apostles, the saints, and other spiritual teachers -- such as St. Teresa of Avila, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King Jr. -- by committing ourselves to building the Beloved Community. Accordingly, we are working to realize peace and justice in all aspects of life, including but not limited to:
    • Racial justice
    • Women's equality and the right to reproductive care
    • LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion
    • Immigrant, refugee, and migrant rights
    • Creation care and climate justice
    • Interfaith solidarity and collaboration
    • Peace and nonviolence
    • Economic justice
  • We confess, as fallible creatures, that the world often is made in our broken image and is not as it should be.
  • We seek to identify, confront, and challenge injustice as we are able, realizing that we cannot change what we do not perceive clearly.
  • We name that the powers and principalities of empire have structured our lives such that the "voiceless" have, in fact, been intentionally silenced and that we bear a responsibility to live in solidarity with them and advocate on their behalf when they cannot do so for themselves.
  • We believe that Jesus fully embodied the loving mutuality of shared tables but that he also understood that some tables, particularly those set with the intention of exploiting and dehumanizing others, need to be flipped.
  • We reject the hijacking of our faith by those who espouse Christian nationalism and blasphemously use the name of Jesus to hoard power, hurt the poor, and harbor authoritarian leaders and their criminal actions under the guise of faithfulness.
  • We will interrupt and disrupt the extractive and exclusive systems of empire by loving, praying, preaching, gathering, singing, dancing, creating, organizing, and resisting. We do so knowing that a different world is not only possible, but that it is imminent and the very foundation of our hope.

Our History

Faithful America was originally founded in 2004 as a project of the National Council of Churches in 2004, then later became a project of Faith in Public Life. Now, we are a separate, fully independent, 501(c)(4) not-for-profit organization.

Our grassroots members are the heart and soul of Faithful America, but we also have a robust staff and board. Our organization was originally led by Michael Sherrard, who was recognized for his work at Faithful America as one of "14 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2014" by the Center for American Progress. He was succeeded by the Rev. Nathan Empsall, who managed the organization from 2019 until 2025 and whose writing on Christian nationalism appeared in Newsweek, Time Magazine, Religion News Services and more.