By W. Travis McMaken Occupy Wall Street and the movement it spawned (#OWS) proclaims that our social life together in the
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Helmut Gollwitzer and Economic Justice¹ Abstract: Helmut Gollwitzer’s legacy as a politically concerned pastor and theologian is instructive for those today who want to take seriously both what Christian faith means for socio-economic justice and what that concern for socio-economic
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“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 the Reformed church, I have been fascinated by our unexamined
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“For 50 or 60 years, we have let ourselves believe that as long as we have money we will have food. This is a mistake. If we continue our offenses against the land and the labor by which we are fed, the food supply will decline, and we will have
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Helmut Gollwitzer and Economic Justice¹ Abstract: Helmut Gollwitzer’s legacy as a politically concerned pastor and theologian is instructive for those today who want to take seriously both what Christian faith means for socio-economic justice and what that concern for socio-economic justice likewise means for the theological task. I treat three
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Occupy Faith and partners are launching a Rolling Jubilee, a people’s bailout to help eliminate debt—and make a stand in the face of our moral crisis of money, debt, and power. Rolling Jubilee may signal an important, and long needed, shift in how we do faith-based community organizing: one that
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Name: Christian Public Witness Election Billboard Description: Albany Presbytery’s Peacemaking Task Force paid for this billboard to go up for a month, in anticipation of the November 2012 election. The quote, “The country needs equitable wages & lasting economic development,” comes from the Presbytery’s Spring 2012 statement of support for
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Thoughts on the “deep” political message of The Dark Knight Rises and a response to the tragic mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, on the night of the film’s premier. By Patrick David Heery (WARNING: SPOILERS ALERT) Since the official release of The Dark Knight Rises (the final
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A Presbyterian Hunger Program Article By Dave Kane, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns There is one significant area where members of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and Tea Party (TP) movements are likely to have much more in common than most would think: The United States would be better
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“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.” – Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination By Jeremy John View and print as PDF. I do not know how to be
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McCormick Theological Seminary By Wes Pitts View and print as PDF. Where I am from, churches do not do social justice. At best, they support non-profit organizations, which do the justice work for them. Social justice is farmed out to the secular world, while churches focus on spiritual
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Harvard Divinity School Interview with Katherine Pater, 3rd Year Master of Divinity Student Interviewed by Patrick David Heery View and print as PDF. On April 24, 2012, I interviewed Katherine Pater, a third-year Master of Divinity student at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), pursuing ordination within the Presbyterian Church
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