Making Meaning Now

Across living rooms, Zoom calls, and kitchen tables, people are reimagining faith and community in the midst of crisis. In 2023 Faith Matters Network began to ask the question that felt both simple and sacred: How are people making meaning right now?

That’s where Making Meaning Now began, somewhere between grief and imagination, between what’s crumbling and what might still be born. We turned to artists, organizers, faith leaders, and culture workers — many of them Black, brown, queer, all tender with fatigue. We came to listen and to hold with— and what we heard was a symphony of wisdom, resistance, and wonder.⁠

Making Meaning Now report is our love letter to resilience, connection, and possibility– and now, we’re thrilled to share our sacred findings with you!