Listen, Organize, Act: Churches, Politics, and Community Transformation

Catalog description

The course integrates practical, political and systematic theology with practices drawn from community organizing, community development and repertoires of direct action in order to help participants work with congregations and communities to develop strategies for faithful and transformative change. The course also serves as an introduction to Christian approaches to social, political and economic witness. Basic categories churches use to frame social and political engagement will be explored; for example, 'neighbor love' and 'prophecy'; as well as some concepts and dynamics that are present but not used, such as 'power,' 'self-interest,' and 'politics.'