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Multispiritual clergy organizing in love and solidarity with community, working for justice and peace, and honoring all that is sacred in creation.
The Colorado Clergy Alliance represents over 150 clergy, and we’re growing!
When clergy come together for the liberation of all people, there is power in our voice and presence.
What is the Colorado Clergy Alliance?
A faith-rooted movement of clergy who organize, resist, and show up—together.
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Our Commitment
Rooted in our commitment to love, solidarity, nonviolence, and the sacredness of all creation, the Colorado Clergy Alliance actively and prophetically opposes every force that diminishes, excludes, or dehumanizes: fascism, Christian Nationalism, white supremacy, all forms of supremacy and genocide, economic inequality, racism, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, and ableism. We understand these are not isolated issues but are interlocking systems of harm violating the dignity of all people and desecrating the sacred.
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Our Resistance
Our resistance is relational—built in the streets, in sanctuaries, in community spaces, and across difference—because we believe that deep, accountable relationships are themselves a form of resistance. Progressively and radically organized, we go to the root of injustice rather than merely tending to the symptoms, to stand alongside and follow the leadership of those most harmed by these systems.
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Our Presence
We are clergy who show up—in solidarity actions, in public witness, in the hard and holy work of challenging harmful systems and building a world where every person is seen, protected, and free.
Why Now, Why Us
We are organizing at a moment of profound urgency. Across the country, we are witnessing what is possible when communities refuse to be silent: in Minneapolis, the response to the murder of George Floyd and the ongoing struggle to honor Indigenous land and sovereignty showed us what moral courage in the streets can look like.
We witness, ICE surges tearing families apart and authoritarian forces growing bolder.
We witness, the rise of white nationalism emboldening the new Jim Crow.
We witness, the targeting and erasure of transgender people.
We witness, the desecration of reproductive rights.
We witness, the growing inequality forcing large numbers of people into poverty and subjugating people into survival.
The need for organized, prophetic clergy
presence has never been greater.
And yet, in Colorado,
we are not prepared to
meet the moment.
Progressive clergy are often absent from the frontlines of justice—
not from lack of heart, but from lack of organization.
Previous efforts to mobilize progressive clergy in Colorado have not taken root in sustainable ways.
Too often, outside organizers came to Colorado treating clergy as participants rather than leaders, handling us with kid gloves, engaging us transactionally rather than relationally. Those efforts, however well-intentioned, have not lasted—because sustainable movements must be built from within, by the people themselves.
The Colorado Clergy Alliance exists because we believe progressive Colorado clergy must organize ourselves. We are not waiting for someone else to build the table. We look to thriving models of clergy organizing in other cities to bring that wisdom here—adapting it, rooting it, and making it ours.
What makes us different is where we begin: with each other.
Before we take to the streets, before we stand at the capitol steps or show up at the detention center, we are building deep, trusting, accountable relationships among ourselves—across traditions, across difference, across the lines that often keep progressive religious communities fragmented.
We intentionally cultivate an energy of standing with one another—showing up for each other first, so that when the moment calls us outward, we move together with conviction, not as strangers recruited to a cause but as a community united in mutual care and commitment.
Our relational foundation—our sense of not being alone—is what makes everything else sustainable.
And when clergy come together, something shifts.
Our voices carry moral weight in the public square.
Our presence at actions, in courtrooms, at city council meetings,
at the borders of unjust systems, changes the room.
That presence begins here, in the energy we build among ourselves—the knowledge that when one of us steps forward, others are standing behind and beside them.
We take concrete action — beyond issuing statements from a distance, by putting our bodies, our collars, our kufis, our tallitot, our stoles, and our sacred authority on the line alongside the communities most harmed.
The energy of standing with each other is not just preparation for the work—it is the work.
This is our moment. And we are choosing to meet it—together.
Inclusivity in CCA
The Colorado Clergy Alliance is intended to be interfaith and inclusive, and also, words are imprecise. Because not all faith traditions have ordained clergy and some have multiple types of formal faith leaders, our invitation is extended to faith leaders like cantors, brothers and sisters of an order, and other formal faith leaders who are interested in joining us.
We invite you to let us know when and where we can do better, so that we can do better where language is concerned.