Tag Archives: community organizing
Job Opening: Young Adult Community Liaison
Live in Baltimore, Detroit, or Los Angeles and want to put your commitment to social justice into action in your local community? Check out the following position opening with the Self-Development of People program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Young … Continue reading
The Power of Bias
More than five years ago, I helped conduct an exercise with a large, diverse group of public transportation drivers. Each participant was given the same set of cards with one word typed clearly on each. They read: Asian, Middle Eastern, African-American, … Continue reading
The Road Out of the Wilderness
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from … Continue reading
Does the Church Need to Build Alternative Economies?
“For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.” -Luke 12:34 “Unfortunately, that is the cost of doing business in our world.” -A clergy colleague’s response to the church divesting from Wall Street In all my years in … Continue reading
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