God And Community Organizing

Author : Lewis B Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics Hak Joon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481313155
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Community Organizing written by Lewis B Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics Hak Joon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-evolving climate, technological advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization and its effects have transformed the very fabric of global society. In the wake of these phenomena is a globally experienced fragmentation caused by moral assumptions about social institutions as well as increasing disenchantment with democracy and social arrangements as they currently exist. Recently, a surprisingly large number of Christian congregations have been attracted to the twentieth-century concept of community organizing. This phenomenon is a result of the inherent passion for justice in covenantal organizing that underlies Jewish and Christian faith. Not only is covenant instrumental in the formation of God's people as a community, the concept has also played an important role in the rise of modern Western ideas of democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights. God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach brings Saul Alinsky's community organizing into conversation with biblical and theological models of covenant. Hak Joon Lee argues that covenant reflects the life of the triune God who eternally organizes Godself as the Father, Son, and Spirit. At the heart of the biblical institutions of the Mosaic Covenant and the New Covenant of Jesus is the attempt to structure a wholesome, close-knit community of love, justice, and power. Lee incorporates four examples of covenantal organizing in different historical and social contexts: Exodus, Jesus, Puritans, and Martin Luther King Jr. Critically engaging with Saul Alinsky's method, Lee seeks to highlight how the two streams of thought--covenantal organizing and Alinsky's community organizing--can complement each other to develop a more vigorous and effective method of faith-based community organizing. From his study Lee explores the political and moral implications in light of the current struggle against the neoliberal corporate oligarchy. By demonstrating how covenantal organizing presents a more coherent and plausible social philosophy, an effective method in organizing a globalizing society is offered as an alternative to liberal democracy, postmodernism, identity politics, and communitarianism.

Author : Hak Joon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481313803
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and Community Organizing written by Hak Joon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings covenantal theology into conversation with the community organizing theory of Saul Alinsky to model a Christian communal response to contemporary societal challenges"--

Author : Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830864695
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith-Rooted Organizing written by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin—such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around the implications of the truth that God is real and Jesus is risen? Alexia Salvatierra has developed a model of social action that is rooted in the values and convictions born of faith. Together with theologian Peter Heltzel, this model of "faith-rooted organizing" offers a path to meaningful social change that takes seriously the command to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself.

Author : David E. Kresta
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725275163
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus on Main Street written by David E. Kresta and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God loves just economies, but sadly the invisible hand of the market has chiseled huge cracks in our communities. Fortunately, Jesus announced freedom for the poor and oppressed, and by taking on his mantle we have a role to play in helping establish just economies here and now! Jesus on Main Street provides church leaders and church planters with a broad overview of Community Economic Development (CED), with practical steps to lead your church in following Jesus into those cracks. You’ll be equipped with the CED “toolkit” including microbusinesses, makerspaces, business incubators, worker cooperatives, workforce development, commercial district revitalization, locality development, anchor institutions, and accountable development. A robust assessment and planning guide specifically for churches will help you create a collaborative CED strategy rooted in God’s love for people and justice. For churches looking to bring healing to their local economies, CED builds capacity for long-term equitable economic growth, catalyzing a movement of business creation, employment, and job creation that does not leave anybody behind. This is the promise and challenge of CED as we follow Jesus down Main Street and explore what good news for local economies looks like!

Author : Susan L. Engh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978706316
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Work written by Susan L. Engh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women’s Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan L. Engh draws on her own experiences and those of twenty-one other women who work in the field of faith-based community organizing to describe how women have been transformed by their participation in organizing, and how they have been agents of transformation in congregations, denominations, organizations, and the public arena. This book provides a basic description of faith-based community organizing through the first-person perspectives of a diverse array of women.

Author : Robert Linthicum
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830832286
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Power written by Robert Linthicum and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a thorough exploration of Scripture and decades of real-world experience, Robert Linthicum's model of relational power provides sound, practical strategies for changing individuals, communities, structures and systems.

Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310265916
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community written by Bill Hybels and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how you can forge strong, meaningful ties with others and with God. Find out how to move beyond superficial relationships and build lasting friendships. (6 sessions)

Author : Wiesendanger, Alex Tindal
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608338290
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Justice written by Wiesendanger, Alex Tindal and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Practical tools for organizing communities and congregations to promote social change"--

Author : Tim Conder
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827227647
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Church written by Tim Conder and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century is the age of community organizing, from rallies in the streets to online movements for change. What if congregations embraced community organizing? Organizing Church offers a unique perspective that blends proven principles of community organizing and research on socially active congregations into a formula that will revitalize and empower churches as change-agents. Seasoned pastors and community activists Tim Conder and Dan Rhodes will help pastors and other church leaders build healthier congregations, create a deep culture of discipleship in their community, and respond to the challenges presented by the global culture of the 21st century. Organizing Church is the essential field guide for joining the social justice movement today.

Author : Dennis A. Jacobsen
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506418821
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Justice written by Dennis A. Jacobsen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Justice introduces readers to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. It draws from the author’s decades-long career of personal experience in community organizing ministries. Illustrated with examples from the experience of community organizers, Doing Justice weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. It offers sound treatment of fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation and suggests ways to build and sustain an organization, relate to media and corporations, and strengthen ministries and empower lay leaders. The second edition includes forewords by veteran pastor-activists Bill Wylie Kellermann and Grant Stevensen and a new preface that notes recent changes in organizing, describes needed new directions and connections, and discusses the significance of new movements such as Black Lives Matter. Also new is Stevensen’s running “conversation” with Jacobsen, drawing readers into deeper engagement with organizing practices. Designed for use by congregations and church leaders as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice will open new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.