Summit for Religious Freedom 2025 ReCAP
The Ashrei Foundation was proud to be an Ally Sponsor of the Summit for Religious Freedom 2025 in Washington D.C. Hosted by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
“A strong separation of church and state is the shield that protects everyone's right to live as themselves and believe as they choose — ensuring freedom without favor and equality without exception.”
The Summit for Religious Freedom or SRF (pronounced "surf") is the hub for our collective fight for religious freedom, church-state separation, and the issues that depend on them like LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights, protecting public schools, strengthening our democracy and more. It’s a big tent — welcoming the diversity of our movement from longtime advocates, to those just discovering the issue and its critical role in protecting our democracy, our equality, and our rights. We’re collaborating to defeat the biggest threats to these values including Christian nationalists and other extremists, along with their political allies, who have launched a coordinated campaign to force us all to live by their narrow, religious beliefs.
Foundation Board Member Rhoda Kahn Nussbaum attended the summit as Ashrei’s delegate and we were delighted to add a little Ashrei SWAG to the attendee’s gift bags.
SRF Rewind is your chance to catch a session you really want to see:
Tuesday, April 15 - 7pm ET
How Religion is Weaponized to Defraud Consumers
Tuesday, April 22 - 12pm ET
LifeWise Academy’s Bastardization of Release Time Religious Instruction & Christian Nationalism
Tuesday, April 29 - 7pm ET
Scopes Trial Centennial 2025 – a TN biology teacher on fighting to teach evolution in the Bible Belt
Tuesday, May 6 - 12:00pm ET
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine: Unmasking Hard-Right “Religious Freedom” Rhetoric
AU is now sharing the wealth of knowledge on a wide array of issues with all recorded SRF 2025 Sessions on YouTube!
SRF is a year-round endeavor through our SRF365 programming – a series of webinars throughout the year on current topics. Future programs and registration will be posted here.
SRF is designed for organizational professionals as well as everyday member activists and grassroots supporters of the cause. It is a home for policy wizards, legal maestros, academic geniuses, kick-ass organizers and volunteer masterminds, as well as brilliant political, community, religious and non-religious leaders. It is a place for teaching and learning, organizing and advocacy, thought leadership and lessons learned, and bringing our community together for the fight of our lives.
Save the date- Next year’s Summit for Religious Freedom is planned for April 25-28, 2026 in the Washington D.C. Area.
