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We need REAL social change now more than ever. But how?

Let me backtrack to a social change event where Cornel West, the prominent African American scholar, was the main speaker. There, he recalled these words of Paolo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed:

No social change movement is ever successful without the support of religious leaders and their communities.

If this is true, and we’re serious about social justice, then shouldn’t we help our spiritual leaders to be good at it? By good, I mean not only effective at motivating congregants to rise up for social change — since many do, but also effective at securing change in policy and law. Today, that is exactly what Auburn Seminary is up to. Continue reading A Seminary Stands Up, Out, and For All Faiths →