Building Up a New World: Congregational Organizing for Transformative Impact

by Anne Dunlap (Editor), Vahisha Hasan (Editor)

Overview

The church is an organizing body. No matter how big or small the membership roll, no matter a rural or urban setting, churches organize people. So what might happen if churches organized (more) effectively for community impact, for policy reform, for justice?

Building Up a New World explores possible—and practical—answer to this critical question from culturally diverse perspectives. Written by community organizers, ministers, healers, and resisters, Building Up a New World is the guiding fire that congregations needs to rise up for such a time as this. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780829800432
Publisher:	Pilgrim Press, The/United Church Press
Publication date:	06/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Rev. Anne Dunlap is the Faith Organizing Coordinator for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a UCC minister, and the founder of FierceRev Remedies. Nurtured into faith-rooted organizing in the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s, she is grateful to Central American, Black, immigrant, worker, and indigenous leaders who have challenged her to think and act deeply about what it means to be human, and to be free. Proud to be from Arkansas, Anne now lives in Buffalo, NY, with her beloved and their kitty.

Rev. Vahisha Hasan, the Executive Director of Movement in Faith, is deeply invested in ways activist and faith communities further healing and collective liberation. She is also the rapid response coordinator for TRACC4Movements (Trauma Response and Crisis Care) and director of SEAL Initiatives at American Baptist College (Social Justice, Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership). Vahisha is deeply grateful for her biological, chosen, and movement family. You can find her moving to the end of her own rainbow on IG and Twitter @VHasanMIF.