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Book Review: Faith-Rooted Organizing, by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel

Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World. Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014).
Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World. Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014).

Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World, Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014.

Summary: Most advocacy and activism efforts have been organized around secular principles. The authors explore what organizing and advocacy work that is deeply and thoroughly rooted in Christian principles would look like and illustrate this from their years of experience. [Read more…] about Book Review: Faith-Rooted Organizing, by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel

Where did you find your megaphone?

Megaphone

This is the first of four guest posts from Janine Giordano, a graduate student and ESN member from the University of Illinois, on the topic of cultivating your voice and finding your audience while in graduate school. When she is not teaching, she spends most of her time working on her dissertation, Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1886-1936. [Read more…] about Where did you find your megaphone?