About Beyond the Choir

Thinking beyond the choir is about not settling for the usual suspects. To make the kinds of progressive changes we imagine, we need the involvement of millions more people. Going beyond the choir is about engaging and activating potential energy – not just working with the forces already in motion. At a local political meeting of only ten people, we see a lot more than those ten individuals; we see their places of work, their places of worship, their friends, their families, their social networks – all as potential energy.

The purpose and hope of Beyond the Choir is to contribute to a broader strategic conversation that examines constraints and barriers to progressive social change, that looks for openings, and that notices and celebrates breakthroughs.