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Investigate. Educate. Organize.

The work of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice sits at the intersection of religion, economics, and ecology and equips educators, organizers and faith leaders to take action in this work.

Watch our our Exchanges trainings on labor and religion, ecology and economics, and the church and organizing. Read our Interventions forums on topics like Radical Religion in the South and Cooperatives and Religious Communities. Join our work with the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development by helping connect your church or organization with the fight for economic democracy and worker cooperatives.

Your work can transform your communities. It's time to take action. It's time to connect the dream and reality of an equitable economy.

 
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Organizing Church: Lessons from Broad-Based Community Organizing

In this Exchanges training, we explore what the church can learn about itself and about its mission through broad-based community organizing.

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A digital space for discussion, learning, and engagement on issues of economics, ecology, and religion

Exchanges is a new effort by the Wendland-Cook Program at Vanderbilt Divinity School that seeks to bring the classroom to you. Exchanges features trainings pulled from our extensive experience working at the intersection of religion, economics, and ecology. We invite you to explore Exchanges by checking out our trainings on Religion and Labor, Liberating People and the Planet, and Broad-based Organizing and the Church.

 

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Cooperatives and Religious Communities

October 2020

This forum explores the history and current relationship between religious communities and worker cooperatives. Featuring Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Gilda Haas, Joerg Rieger, Nathan Schneider, and Aaron Stauffer, Cooperatives and Religious Communities explores how economic fights also take place in politics and religion, and vice versa.

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Webinar: Engaging Christianities and Socialisms

March 8, 2021

Featuring Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Joerg Rieger, Cornel West, and moderated by Angela Cowser, this webinar investigates the history and future of Christian Socialisms that are deeply democratic, intersectional, and praxis oriented. Participants discover that not all kinds of socialism are equal, and neither are all kinds of Christianity.

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Radical Religion in the South

November 2020

This forum explores the role of religion in radical movements in the South. Contributors tell stories of forgotten strikes, uprisings, and massacres and explore how religion can play a role today in supporting radical liberation movements in the South. Contributors: Allyn Maxfield-Steele, Michael K. Honey, Alison Collis Greene, Robert Korstad.

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