Palm Sunday Path pushes churches, faith-based groups out into the public square

With the recent actions of ICE and CBP in Minnesota over the past several months a group of faith-based communities have decided the safe, traditional message no longer meets the demands of the moment.

Kelly Fenton, The Dairyland Patriot Updated March 21, 2026

Historically, mainstream Protestantism has ceded the public and political arena to conservative evangelicalism. Other than Black churches who fought for civil rights or Latino churches who worked for immigrants’ and labor rights in the 60s, most mainline churches seldom strayed from scripture and into politics.

ICE actions in Minneapolis are changing that. Isaiah, a faith-based group out of Minnesota began organizing Palm Sunday Path, a church-driven political protest, after witnessing the extra-judicial actions of masked federal agents making warrantless arrests of both U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants, defying court orders, harassing citizens peacefully protesting and, ultimately, murdering Rene Good and Alex Pretti.

On March 29, clergy and parishioners all around the midwest, including across Wisconsin, will march from their sanctuaries to an appointed spot in their community to protest what they call “rising authoritarianism and white christian nationalism.” The protests are intended to speak up for the tenets of Judeo-Christian faith, which they claim hasve been perverted by overtly political and reactionary Evangelical Christianity. Unlike the No Kings Rally planned for the day before, Palm Sunday Path is meant to be liturgical in nature, though those participating insist how we treat others cannot be separated from politics. Breanna Illene of the Wisconsin Council of Churches says it’s past time Christianity promoted the moral and loving message of Jesus …

Isaiah hopes this will be more than a march and will be the start of a movement.

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