Church Within A Church Movement

Photos of the three ordinands with the intersex-inclusive pride flag in the background.

With excitement and joy, CWACM announces 2025-2026 Ordinations: Dorothee Benz, Jo Schonewolf, and Adam Marshall.

CWACM is an expansive anti-oppression community honoring a diversity of spiritual, religious and philosophical truths and their fullest expressions.

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CWACM Agenda

Rev. Vernice Thorn stopping traffic in Chicago

Disrupting Privilege

All oppression is connected – heterosexism, racism, sexism, genderism, colonialism, ableism and all other ways in which we separate ourselves from each other. Disrupting privilege ...

Justice and Ministry street sign intersection

Justice Ministries

CWACM began as a resistance movement; one that challenged the status quo of traditional "church," which often excludes based on race, sexual orientation and gender ...

Jennifer Sanders holds sign that says "Respect Existence or Expect Resistance"

Religious Violence

Religious violence is a phenomenon where Religion is either the subject or object of violent behavior. At the intersections, we recognize that many have been ...

male and female symbols joined together to form symbol of infinity with no beginning or end

In a world where binary thinking is normalized, the Movement intentionally celebrates a spectrum of identity. We teach, live and affirm gender expansiveness, naming ourselves and celebrating each other.

JUSTNotes

Emerging

February 20, 2024

Rev. Vernice Thorn

I love the definitions of emerging: to become apparent; to move out of or away from something; to merge, to dip, to come to light.

Emerge: Become Apparent or Prominent

February 20, 2024

Rev. Annie Britton

What a wonderfully vague definition, filled with possibilities! There are so many ideas, realities, and actions that can emerge.

A New Year... A New Beginning

February 20, 2024

As each new day begins, as I am able, I will start in Gratitude and Thanksgiving.

In Focus

AVP: The Anti-Violence Project

Pronouns 101 – A DYCD Learning Video

AVP: The Anti-Violence Project

Amicus Brief to Stop ICE

AVP: The Anti-Violence Project

Happy Hour Registration

AVP: The Anti-Violence Project

Voices From Our Community

Learning about the intersections

Being a member of CWACM means learning about the intersections of oppression, and becoming active in efforts to eradicate the cruelty of oppression wherever it connects.

Brenda Walker

Detroit, Michigan

Healing and Hope

I left the UMC behind in order to find new hope, new life, and new purpose as a follower of Jesus. If you are frustrated, hurt, or angry about what happened at General Conference, please join our Movement. There is healing and hope here.

Rev. Robyn Morrison

Helena, Montana

Be the change

Gandhi said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." By BEing with The Church Within A Church Movement, I am able to help co-create a new way of doing church that does not rely on systems of oppression.

Terry Schwennesen

I support the CWAC Movement

I support the CWAC Movement with my prayers, presence, financial gifts and service because it is BEING the church that best represents my progressive theology, my passion for inclusion and my desire to work for justice. It has become my "church community" at large.

Rev. Susan J. Morrison

Boston, Massachusetts

About CWACM

A justice movement offering extraordinary ordination, non-hierarchical community relationships, inspiration and activism alongside a Methodist heritage.

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