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

Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in engaging with movement whose active members are largely inspired to lead programs and ministries focused on religious justice and healing within an emerging shared leadership model. This non-hierarchal model is a strength and an area of growth for the movement.

Highlighting History

Meeting since 2001, organized in 2002 and incorporated in 2004, The Church Within A Church Movement (CWACM) began as a grassroots response, a church within a church (for some, a resistance movement) to discriminatory, harmful and oppressive actions of the United Methodist Church (UMC) toward Transgender, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people. Rather than try to engage the UMC directly to change the official 40+ year position that still says, “Homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching,” CWACM chose an alternate path; BE the fully inclusive and just church, now.

In that spirit, CWACM has evolved, wrestled and stretched into a justice movement offering place, healing, education and inspiration beyond denominational borders. A founding proclamation to be more than a single issue movement has manifested a church trial, anti-racist declaration of organizational intent, racial identity caucusing, extraordinary ordinations, justice ministries of presence and community values including non-hierarchical shared leadership. We are growing a Movement offering a way along the way unbound by the assumed earmarks of the status quo. We gather to engage, heal and listen. We challenge assumptions of tradition and power. We embrace our heritage and value the gifts of our present; often messy, passionate, real, dynamic and ultimately inspiring community-building and a structure of BElonging through radical inclusion.

Openings

CWACM has no openings at this time.