If you believe Americans should welcome immigrants and refugees into our country, you can get there as an intellectual or a humanist who cares about others, or even as a business leader who understands that immigration strengthens the economy. But you can also get there by reading and learning from passages in the Torah, the Qur’an, and the Gospel that call on all of us to welcome the stranger and the foreigner.

You might be committed to protecting the environment and fighting climate change because you see and understand the science linking carbon emissions with melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and a changing climate. Or, you can get there because of a steadfast belief that God created the Earth and gave us stewardship over it, and that it is our responsibility to improve our world and leave it cleaner and healthier for our children and grandchildren.

If you care about reforming a broken criminal-justice system that condemns too many Americans to a lifetime without justice, opportunity, or participation in the democratic process, you can get there by comparing the numbers of African Americans and Latino Americans to the numbers of white Americans arrested and charged for the same offenses, or by consulting data showing that mass incarceration is prohibitively expensive and doesn’t make us any safer. Or, you can get there through the words of the prophet Isaiah, who urges us to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness the prisoners.

Even when Americans travel different paths to get to the same conclusions, they can find common ground on many issues, from expanding access to health care to fighting hunger and poverty.

Across the country, faith leaders at the local, state, and national levels are encouraging their communities to fight for progressive causes. In North Carolina, for example, William Barber II has mobilized thousands against voter suppression and anti-LGBT laws, inspiring widespread civic engagement through a series of “Moral Monday” protests at the state capitol.

Jennifer Butler, the CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based organization Faith in Public Life, has worked to unite people of different religions behind progressive goals, including by organizing interfaith resistance to efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Gabriel Salguero, a New York City pastor who founded the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, has fought for racial reconciliation and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the importance of reforming immigration laws and improving police-community relations.

Barber, Butler, and Salguero are among the grassroots faith leaders who are each forging local alliances with progressive organizations and Americans of all faith backgrounds to fight for progressive causes. In doing so, they’re following in well-trodden footsteps of faith communities that have helped motivate and sustain generations of social progress in the United States.