Inside Agitators: Seminarians for Justice

May/June 2012 Issue Table of Contents

Intro­duc­tions to the Issue

• “The Loca­vore Dilemma: Sem­i­nar­i­ans Become Jus­tice Loca­vores” by Patrick David Heery
• “High Ideals and Low Fences: Unpack­ing the nar­ra­tive mean­ing of jus­tice in sem­i­nary life” by Chris Iosso

Let­ters to a Seminarian

• “Let­ter to a Sem­i­nar­ian from a Chris­t­ian Occu­pier” by Jeremy John
• “Empow­er­ing La Com­mu­nidad Latina” by David Abalos

Austin Pres­by­ter­ian The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Texas)

• “Maria’s Story: Deten­tion in the Land of the Free” by Ruth Elswood

Clare­mont School of The­ol­ogy (California)

• “Sem­i­nary Stu­dents Stand with Undoc­u­mented Food Work­ers” by Nina Fer­nando, Wes­ley Menke, Samuel Pullen, and Chad Seagle

Colum­bia The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Georgia)

• “Who Gets to Live at Colum­bia Sem­i­nary, and Who Doesn’t?” by Patrick David Heery and Anonymous
• “Prayer for a Wel­com­ing Com­mu­nity” by Doug Friesema

Fuller The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (California)

• “Turn­ing the Church Inside-Out, Encoun­ter­ing the Other” – Inter­view with Jen­nifer Ackerman

Har­vard Divin­ity School (Cam­bridge, Massachusetts)

• “Occupy Har­vard” – Inter­view with Kather­ine Pater

Inter­de­nom­i­na­tional The­o­log­i­cal Cen­ter (Atlanta, Georgia)

• “A Sem­i­nary Where the Stu­dents Are Still March­ing” by Elyse Ambrose
• “Social Jus­tice: Break­ing It Down” by Carl Lowery

Louisville Pres­by­ter­ian The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Kentucky)

• “Close Enough to Get Hurt” by Alex Becker
• “Mak­ing Min­is­ters Uncom­fort­able” – Inter­view with Tonia Gon­za­lez, By Amy Hartsough

McCormick The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Chicago)

• “Build­ing Faith­ful Love: Cre­at­ing a Cli­mate for Jus­tice” by Abby Mohaupt and TC Anderson
• “Refus­ing to Out­source Jus­tice” by Wes Pitts

Pitts­burgh The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Pennsylvania)

• “What an Urban Sem­i­nary Is Doing to Advo­cate Social Jus­tice Beyond the Iron Gates” by Kelly Jean Norris-Wilke

Prince­ton The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (New Jersey)

• “Is Diver­sity Enough?” by Josh Newton
• “Remem­ber­ing Our Com­mu­nity: Empow­er­ing the Latin@ Com­mu­nity” by Ari­ana Salazar-Newton
• “Num­ber­ing My Wor­ries” by Emily Morgan
• “Dan­ger­ous Faith: A Man­date for Dis­lo­ca­tion” by Daniel Yang
• “Igno­rance and Apa­thy: A Reflec­tion on Social Jus­tice in the Church” by Rachel B. Livingston

San Fran­cisco The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (California)

• “Beyond the Walls” – Inter­view with Rochelle Shaw

Union The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (New York City)

• “Jus­tice at Union The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary: Legacy of Jus­tice, Lens for Action” by Thia Reggio

Yale Divin­ity School (New Haven, Connecticut)

• “Remark­able Hope: With God, All Will Be Pos­si­ble” – Inter­view with Whit­ney Waller

If you are inter­ested in join­ing the lead­er­ship team that will be envi­sion­ing and cre­at­ing a national net­work of sem­i­nary and divin­ity school stu­dents com­mit­ted to social jus­tice, please con­tact us.