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Creating connections between Organizers and Scholars
This landmark volume brings together scholars and practitioners to chart the evolving terrain of Christian social ethics in relation to broad-based organizing. The editors demonstrate that social ethics is not an abstract discipline—it is deeply rooted in the struggles, tactics, and vision of movements for justice.
Expert Contributors
Our latest work features 12 chapters that illustrates the deep connection between organizing and the academy. Including:
Contributors include the editors and:
- Carolyn Baker, The General Baker Institute
- Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
- K. B. Brower, Bargaining for the Common Good, Action Center on Race & the Economy
- Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
- Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Santa Clara University
- Peter Laarman, United Church of Christ minister; former executive director, Progressive Christians Uniting
- Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Church Divinity School of the Pacific
- Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary
- C. Melissa Snarr, Vanderbilt University
- Joseph Strife, formerly of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, NYC
- Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Earlham School of Religion
Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, NYC, and professor of religion, Columbia University. He has authored many books in theology, philosophy, social ethics, political economics, and intellectual history, most recently a memoir, Over from Union Road: My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life.
Charlene Sinclair has been a community organizer for over twenty years, working with national and local organizations to develop comprehensive grassroots organizing and political strategies as well as policy and power analysis.
Aaron Stauffer is associate director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, Vanderbilt Divinity School. An ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA), he served as executive director of and then special advisor to Religions for Peace USA.