Book contents
Introduction
1 The Roots of Faith-Rooted Organizing
2 Dreaming Gods Dream Together: The Goals of Faith-Rooted Organizing
3 Our Starting Place, the Call of the Poor
4 Discerning the Kairos
5 Questions of Power and Hope
6 The Gift of Christ-Centered Community
7 Individual Gifts
8 Prophetic Advocacy and Public Witness
9 Recruitment: Gods Pitchfork
10 Developing the Body of Christ
11 Prophetic Spirituality: Sustaining the Struggle
Appendix: Faith-Rooted Serpent Power
Acknowledgments
For Further Reading
Notes
Index of Names and Subjects
Scripture Index
About Red Letter Christians
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She also serves as a consultant for a variety of organizations, including World Vision USA/World Vision International/Women of Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, the Christian Community Development Association the Womens Donor Network, Auburn Theological Seminary, Interfaith Worker Justice, PICO and Sojourners. She is adjunct faculty at the New York Theological Seminary and Biola University, and for over eleven years she was the executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE).