About Crossroads

Almost 40 years ago, a group of Christian leaders created Crossroads as a resource for historically white Christian institutions declaring a desire to meet the needs of People of Color within and outside their membership as part of a commitment to multiculturalism. Driven by the belief that multiculturalism without accountability to People of Color is hollow, enabling White people to evade critical reflection and the necessary reckoning with history, Crossroads’ founders believed that transformative change requires confronting an institution’s history of racial injustice and the values that perpetuated it. They set to build an organization that would follow the leadership of Black civil rights leaders who recognized racial justice could not happen without the transformation of whiteness and white institutions. Recognizing that training alone isn’t enough, they emphasized organizing as the key to lasting change. Crossroads equips leaders to be internal organizers and facilitators of racial justice. Over the past four decades, Crossroads has transformed significantly. No longer a religious organization or led by White men, we are now a People of Color-led laboratory, imagining and testing the antiracist practices we ask others to assume. Our commitment to awakening and harnessing spiritual power remains, making our goals cosmological. While our analysis and approach have evolved, our founders’ belief in the importance of self-critique and organizing for change continues to be central to our mission. 

Crossroads’ mission is to help institutions with shared language, ideas, practices, and tools to:

• Understand how their institutions operate in ways that maintain systemic racism as well as the system of ideas that legitimize a drive to dominate
• Cultivate ways of being and working that lead to institutional practices that result in justice and equity

About our Vision