Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Dennis A. Jacobsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506418813 ISBN 13: 9781506418810

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2017

Synopsis

Doing Justice introduces readers to "congregation-based" community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. It draws from the author's decades-long career of personal experience in community organizing ministries.

Illustrated with examples from the experience of community organizers, Doing Justice weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. It offers sound treatment of fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation and suggests ways to build and sustain an organization, relate to media and corporations, and strengthen ministries and empower lay leaders.

The second edition includes forewords by veteran pastor-activists Bill Wylie Kellermann and Grant Stevensen and a new preface that notes recent changes in organizing, describes needed new directions and connections, and discusses the significance of new movements such as Black Lives Matter. Also new is Stevensen's running "conversation" with Jacobsen, drawing readers into deeper engagement with organizing practices.

Designed for use by congregations and church leaders as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice will open new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis A. Jacobsen has been pastor of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Milwaukee and is director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over 1,000 clergy that develops national and regional training events to ground the work of congregation-based community organizing in theology and scripture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1506418813
• ISBN 13: 9781506418810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 186