Who We Become When It’s “Just Us”

Some of the most important justice work doesn’t happen in public. It happens in the spaces where we feel safe, unchallenged, and certain we’re “the good ones.” In this Social Justice service, we’ll explore a bracing (and strangely freeing) question: who are we becoming when nobody’s watching? Not as a guilt trip, and not as a performance—more like honest spiritual training for the moments that shape our character: how we speak when it’s comfortable to be sloppy, how we respond when feedback stings, how we notice the systems that keep benefiting us even when we don’t “mean” to.

Together we’ll practice the shift from defensiveness to accountability, from optics to integrity, from “I’m not like those people” to “What am I willing to change—and what am I willing to risk?” Expect a service that is candid, compassionate, and practical: more listening than posturing, more formation than finger-pointing, and an invitation to grow a sturdier kind of solidarity—one that shows up in real rooms, on real Tuesdays, with real choices.