Greater Things

Greater Things often partners with Vote Common Good, and its advocacy areas include combatting Christian nationalism and liberal expansionist immigration policy.  ³

Background

Greater Things is a nonprofit focused on left-wing religious and social activism. The group opposes so-called Christian nationalism and runs Faith and Democracy seminars alongside Vote Common Good, an organization that shares the same founder; the seminar purports to examine the “threat posed by Christian nationalism.” Greater Things was also a sponsor of the Confronting Christian Nationalism 2024 National Tour. Greater Things and Vote Common Good both take an interest in immigration policy and are often critical of Trump administration policies in this area.  ^{4  3  5  6}

Activities

We the People Ride

We the People Ride is a project that included riding bikes and filming along the United States and Mexico border, a trip of 3,200 miles. The goal of the trip was to collect stories to advocate for “Common Good” immigration policies. In 2025, the We the People Ride Project, sponsored by Greater Things, was seeking funds to complete a documentary of its travels.  ^{7  8}

Confronting Christian Nationalism 2024 National Tour

Greater Things was named as a partner organization of the Confronting Christian Nationalism 2024 National Tour. This tour made the claim that so-called Christian nationalism is a “heresy.” Moreover, the tour’s description often equates what it calls Christian nationalism with white supremacy. The project’s outreach was aimed at white evangelicals, stating “[w]hite evangelicals in America can grow in faithfulness by following this cloud of witnesses.”  ⁵

The organizers of this tour included Vote Common Good, Red Letter Christians, Greater Things, BJC (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty), and Faithful America.  ⁵

Funding

In 2024, Greater Things reported $0 revenue, $1,072,445 in expenses, and $0 in net assets, according to the group’s public IRS tax filings. The group also reported no revenue in 2021, 2022, and 2023. However, at least one group reported giving a grant to the organization during this time frame, and the group’s net assets jumped from debts of over $880,000 to $0 from 2023 to 2024.  ^{9  10  11  12}

In 2023, the Arkansas Community Foundation gave $60,000 to Greater Things.  ¹³

In 2020, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation gave $10,000 to Greater Things.  ¹⁴

Doug Pagitt

Doug Pagitt is the founder and as of 2025 was the executive director of Greater Things. He was the founding pastor of a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota called Solomon’s Porch that opened in 2000. As of 2025, he had published over ten books including Outdoing Jesus: Seven Ways to Live Out the Promise of Greater Than and A Christianity Worth Believing.  ¹

Pagitt is also the founder of Vote Common Good, a social welfare and advocacy nonprofit aimed at increasing civic engagement among people of faith. On its donation page, the group takes an explicitly partisan stance, stating “we train and support Democratic candidates to connect with Evangelical and Catholic voters.” Vote Common Good also has material on its website entitled “How to Protect People During ICE Raids.”  ^{2  15}