Rev. Mara Richards Bim is a pastor, writer, speaker and spiritual director. She is the first Justice & Advocacy Fellow in the newly-launched Prophetic Leadership Program at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas, TX, where she was ordained in 2025.
Mara graduated from SMU's Perkins School of Theology in 2024 with a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction. Previously, Mara had a 20-year career as an award-winning theatre artist. She founded the nationally acclaimed Cry Havoc Theater Company which operated in Dallas from 2014-2023. In 2021 she was named one of D Magazine’s “78 Women Changing the Face of Dallas.”
Mara is also a Clemons Fellow at Baptist News Global where she writes about immigration, religion and politics, and the threats posed by Christian fascism.
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EXPERIENCES
Show Date
Fri 4 Sep 2026 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM
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| Title Short | Organizing Faithful Resistance |
| Venue | Workshop |
| Experience Description | “But they never attacked the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses systematically. They remember.” – Jurassic Park
The chaotic “flood the zone” strategy of the current Administration is a feature—not a bug—of the authoritarian takeover of our democratic republic. Like velociraptors, state actors are flinging themselves on the guardrails of our democracy looking for weaknesses. This is why organizing the faithful is so important today. What are you seeing in your own local community? What is happening to your immigrant neighbors? How are your local community groups coordinating their resistance efforts? How are faith leaders showing up (or not) in this moment of resistance? Are you engaged in the resistance—or do you want to be and not know where to start? Let’s talk. This roundtable discussion is a place where people can share what they’re seeing on the ground in their own communities and learn how other communities across the U.S. are mobilizing. Resources will be available, but the most important resource for this conversation is you. Let’s come together to continue building a faithful national resistance movement. |
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