Author: Lariss Romero; Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger; George Schmidt; Joerg Rieger.

Date Published: 2021

Institution: Wendland-Cook

Resource Type: Interventions Forum

Overview: Can churches and faith communities be part of creating a new economy? 

People have been actively creating cooperative and solidarity economies all over the world for thousands of years. The paradigm is built on cooperation, democracy, equality, solidarity, equity, justice, openness, honesty, inclusion, social responsibility and caring for others and the environment. Our current economic system is broken. Worker cooperatives--businesses owned and controlled by the people who work there--are a concrete vision of what a more just society can look like. Social ventures, like cooperatives, bring a triple bottom line to current business structures: a focus on people, planet, and profit. Featuring voices from four leaders from the Churches and Cooperatives Collaborative Inquiry team, this Interventions forum takes up this imperative -- that faith communities can be part of creating a new economy -- and explores the value of cooperatives to churches and their mission.

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