faith250 is a program that invites faith leaders and communities across the country to form clusters of congregations to act as sacred spaces for listening to one another, clarifying our shared civic values, and celebrating our hopes for America. Our work centers on some of America's sacred texts — among them The Declaration of Independence, Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus, America the Beautiful, and Frederick Douglass's address, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? — with more texts to be added in the coming months. The approach unfolds in three components, not necessarily in sequence, but each reinforcing the others:

1. clergy relationship-building through small group study of America’s sacred texts;

2. multi-congregation fellowship by breaking bread and discussing the same texts in larger clergy-led gatherings (clusters);

3. public civic rituals designed by each local community — powerful at any time of year, and especially resonant on national holidays like July 4th and Thanksgiving Day.