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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Claiming Our Identities

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.

Welcome to CWACM

In Focus

AVP: The Anti-Violence Project

Voices From Our Community

I am a member

Being a member of CWACM means that I belong to a movement that will not silence me, or oppress me, when I advocate for LGBTQ rights.

Rev. Robyn Morrison

Helena, Montana

Why I am a member

This Movement models something very different, I believe. CWACM seeks to gather as a faith community that honors diversity and works to understand and dismantle the barriers to growing that authentic community. And that’s one of the reasons why I am a member.

cathy knight

Chicago, Illinois

A Place to Live From

A Place to Live From: Dual Covenant Membership in the Movement gives me the courage and strength to stand tall and grow the local church in my care as a truly diverse and welcoming faith community. Thanks, CWACM!

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Rev. William P. Meyer

Rome, Maine

I joined CWACM because

I joined CWACM because I would rather be a part of an inclusive movement committed to social and racial justice than be ordained into a deeply divided and conflicted institution (the UMC).

Rev. Robyn Morrison

Helena, Montana

About CWACM

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

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