“You enter the extraordinary by doing what you believe.”
WHAT WE BELIEVE
What does it mean to embody love in an age of fear and anxiety? In a world that is increasingly bent on deciding who’s in and who’s out? Fear is a powerful force in the world today, a force that seems to be sharply rising. But history tells us that fear ultimately collapses, even if it takes longer than we hope. Love always triumphs.
We believe the future belongs to those who love. 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.
But living an ethic like this is hard. 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 love, 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
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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.
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We practice mercy through generosity, advocacy, forgiveness, and presence, even when it costs us.
JUSTICE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
“What does the Lord require of you? To do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.”