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Occupy Wall Street Is Doing the Church’s Work

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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Does the Church Need to Build Alternative Economies?

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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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Occupy Wall Street Is Doing the Church’s Work

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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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Christian Public Witness Election Billboard

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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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Jeremy John, Christian blogger and occupier
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Letter to a Seminarian from a Christian Occupier

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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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Wes Pitts
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Refusing to Outsource Justice

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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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Katherine Pater
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Occupy Harvard

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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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