The Social Justice Committee presents:
Faith Under Fire: Defending Democracy in the Age of Authoritarian Threats.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7 PM Eastern on Zoom.
The agenda for this 90 minute workshop on Voting Rights includes:
- Overview of Faithful Co-Conspirators
- Threats to Voter Access and Election Administration
- Congressional, Administrative, and State & Local
- Midterm Election Challenges and Threats
- Threat Assessment, Voter Intimidation, Election Sabotage, etc.
- Opportunities for Voter Access and Election Administration
- Ways to Engage
- Q&A
This workshop will be led by Min. Christian S. Watkins, MDiv (he/him). Christian serves as senior government relations advocate for Criminal Legal Systems, Democracy Reform, and Reparatory Justice at NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, where he works to eliminate racial disparities and advance transformative federal legislation. He is also a certified candidate for ordained ministry in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, minister of social justice at Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., and secretary of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations.
