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
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Dove Power: Advocacy the Christian Way
"What does it mean for Christians to do social justice advocacy as if God is real and Jesus is risen?" is a significant question. Anyone have example regarding how such social justice advocacy relates to (interacts with or even been played out in) their research, field and/or higher education in general? Once again, thank-you to J. Nathan Matias (@natematias), Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media for his Urbana12 series. This post in original form (12/29/2012) can be found here. ~ Thomas B. … [Read more...] about Dove Power: Advocacy the Christian Way