Celebrate PRIDE SUNDAY at The Riverside Church
June 20
Join us for a joyful and inspiring day!
Start at 8:00 AM with the Maranatha Pride Breakfast in Room 9T—featuring delicious food, live music, and community connection as we honor this year’s Pride Scholar Award recipients.
Tickets are $20 and proceeds support the Pride Scholarship Fund. Purchase online or in the gift shop—but don’t wait!
Then at 11:00 AM, gather in the Nave for our Pride Worship Service—a powerful celebration of LGBTQ+ pride, faith, justice, and radical love.
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Register Now for The Riverside Church’s 2025 Pride March!
In a moment when LGBTQIA+ rights are under relentless attack, showing up matters more than ever. Pride is not just a parade—it is a protest, a public witness to the right of our Queer siblings to live unapologetically, with dignity, safety, and joy.
Join The Riverside Church as we march in the 2025 NYC Pride March with love, courage, and fierce solidarity. Walk alongside the Riverside float and be part of a powerful movement for justice, inclusion, and radical welcome.
Register now to reserve your spot and stand with us as we proclaim: All are beloved. All are worthy. All deserve to live free.
We will leave The Riverside Church at 10:45am.
EPA (Environmental Protections Agency) Plans to Roll Back Climate Protections Amid Record Heat
As extreme heat scorches communities across the country, the EPA is moving to repeal critical rules that would require coal and gas power plants to cut 90% of their climate pollution by 2032.
If the U.S. power sector were a country, it would be the 7th-largest climate polluter in the world. Weakening these standards gives major polluters a free pass—putting our health, air, and climate at even greater risk.
Take Action:
Submit a public comment now and urge the EPA to keep strong pollution limits in place.
With heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and storms intensifying, we can’t afford to backtrack on life-saving protections.
Click to Submit a Public Comment
No War With Iran
Our partners at NIAC (National Iranian American Council) are calling on us to take urgent action to stop a devastating war with Iran.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s illegal attack—now backed by Donald Trump—has killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, displaced millions from Tehran, and sparked predictable reprisals that have brought fear and destruction to Israel. Trump’s reckless escalation is pushing the U.S. toward another disastrous, unnecessary war.
We must raise our voices now and demand: NO WAR WITH IRAN.
#EmptyPlatesProtest
Join the #EmptyPlatesProtest, a national relay fast starting Monday, June 23, 2025, to protest devastating proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, the Child Tax Credit, and other basic needs. Each day, new participants will fast for 24 hours, symbolizing the millions who will go hungry or lose care if these cuts pass.
Take action:
1. Pledge to fast at protestfast.org
2. Share with a photo of an empty plate and use hashtags #EmptyPlatesProtest #TheFastingFurious #HungryForJustice #HandsOffSNAP or #HandsOffMedicaid
3. Urge your Senators: Hands off our basic needs!
Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy
Mondays | 5:30pm – 6:00pm | Columbus Circle
Join Us for Weekly Vigils at Columbus Circle
Mondays | 5:30–6:00 PM
(Gather at the USS Maine Statue, SW corner of Central Park)
Multifaith Monday Vigils create a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and moral clarity in a time of deep division. If nothing else, we can stand together, bear witness, and commit to justice—even when the path is uncertain.
As M. Gessen reminds us, “Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority.” By gathering, we choose to reinforce and strengthen moral authority, countering isolation and overwhelm.
We look forward to standing with you.
Sponsors Include:
The Interfaith Center of New York
Union Theological Seminary
The Jewish Theological Seminary
Episcopal Diocese of New York
The Riverside Church
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
The BeaconNYC4o