We believe the future belongs to those who love.

But not just any love. The kind of love Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about — the willingness to serve without reciprocation, to suffer without retaliation, to reconcile without domination. 

We are investing in ministry startups where it’s toughest, cultivating resilience with the bravest, and rallying people to love their neighbors. All expressions of chasing justice and mercy.

But chasing mercy and justice is hard. Especially with humility. It requires more than assenting to a few values or changing a few behaviors. Borrowing from the monastic traditions, we believe it looks more like a way of life, like making a covenant for how we want to be in this world and how we want to live. For us, the three fold virtues of mercy, justice and humility frame how we want to live differently in the world. While we are borrowing these virtues from the Judeo-Christian tradition, anyone who believes in these virtues is welcome to join the Together journey.

MERCY

  • Mercy is covenantal, steadfast love-in-action that keeps showing up for the other, especially the vulnerable. Mercy is a durable commitment that doesn’t just feel compassion, it bears burdens and seek to bring change.

  • We practice mercy through generosity, advocacy, forgiveness, and presence, even when it costs us.

JUSTICE

  • ustice honors the God-given worth and the Imago Dei, or image of God, in every person, especially the vulnerable. At its core, justice is about right relationships—relationships that work. Injustice is about relationships that don’t. Justice for the “the Quartet of the Vulnerable”—the orphan, widow, immigrant, and the poor— is especially important. Injustice occurs when these people are left out, oppressed, or exploited.

  • Justice is lived through what Walter Bruegamann calls “covenantal neighborliness” when we makes room for people who are excluded so that shalom (wholeness) becomes tangible.There is no love without justice, and there is no justice without love.

HUMILITY

  • Humility is s a posture of receiving one’s life as gift, refusing self-exaltation, and re-channeling power toward service so that right-relationship, justice, and mercy can flourish.

  • Humility is the posture that honors equal worth—we don’t stand over others as benefactors; we stand with them as image-bearers whose rights bind our conduct. It resists paternalism and listens, making room for the voices of the vulnerable.

“IF I SEE AN INJUSTICE AND I DON’T DO ANYTHING, WHAT KIND OF PERSON DOES THAT MAKE ME?”
— Ethan Hawke