This week’s article, written by Jerome Garciano, team lead of the Civic Engagement conversation, highlights one of the driving forces behind Boston Flourish 2025—the call for cross-sector collaboration that bridges faith, justice, and public life. Jerome explores how followers of Jesus can bring grace, unity, and conviction into the civic arena through movements like the AND Campaign.
As Boston prepares to launch its local chapter, this article invites us to imagine what it looks like when Christians engage politics not through partisanship, but through the Gospel—seeking the common good so that our city may truly flourish.
I may have been one of the few evangelicals taking part in my local town’s No Kings Demonstrations last weekend, but I was somewhat surprised to see protest signs appealing to “religious” values. These signs highlighted God’s commands and decrees to love the foreigner because we all were foreigners, and reminded us to ask ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ for our transgender neighbor? One sign especially resonated with me stating, “IT’S SO BAD EVEN THE INTROVERTS ARE HERE!” We need followers of Jesus to speak grace and unity into this moment of division and hatred and set forth a hope and vision for the common good grounded in the Gospel and God’s Word, and that’s why I think the AND Campaign is so important at this time in our history.
As described in Compassion (&) Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement, the AND Campaign is a Christian civic organization that asserts the compassion and conviction of the gospel of Jesus Christ into the public square. It believes that Christians are called to promote social justice and moral order (rather than one or the other) in the sociopolitical arena, and to transcend both partisanship and political ideology.
The AND Campaign has four primary objectives:
- Education – Raise civic literacy among Christians and help believers apply biblical values to the most pressing issues of the day.
- Representation – Represent and articulate a clear and credible biblical worldview that Christians can identify with in the public square.
- Coalition Building & Reconciliation – Organizing Christians to speak with one voice in the public square, and bridging racial and sociopolitical divides in the church.
- Advocacy – Promoting values and policies among policy makers and political decision makers that align with the biblical worldview.
Join us next week at the Boston Flourish Conference as we hear from AND Campaign founder and author Justin Giboney and meet with others who are passionate about seeing our City flourish. We will also mark this moment as the launch of the Boston Chapter of The AND Campaign. We can’t wait to see you there!
Join the Movement
Boston Flourish 2025 takes place October 30, 2025, at IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester.
Tickets are available now for $99, Student rate for $75
👉 Register today to be part of Boston’s unfolding story — a story of faith, research, and collaboration that’s shaping the future of our city.
Because when it comes to creating a Boston where everyone belongs, thrives, and flourishes — it starts with us.
P.S. If you’d like to learn more about the AND Campaign, check out the (&) Civic Revival 10 Disciplines and the Civic Engagement Playbook
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