activism
The religious practice of community organizing
Aaron Stauffer offers a nuanced study of the radical social gospel and broad-based organizing.
Why is progressive activism so ineffective?
Fredrik deBoer explains why the mobilization of 2020 produced so few concrete gains.
A multitude of ways to love the earth
Mallory McDuff’s anthology centers non-White voices and women’s narratives in the climate justice conversation.
AJ Muste’s Christian nonviolence
Once a household name among progressives, the activist and minister influenced generations that followed.
The faith leaders who helped preserve abortion access in Kansas
In the fight over an antiabortion amendment, Protestant pastors and Catholic sisters worked to show that there is more than one faith-based view.
Amara Ifeji works at the intersection of climate and racial justice
The Nigerian-born activist grew up in Maine playing with the dirt—and experiencing environmental racism.
For BLM cofounder Alicia Garza, organizing is about doing the work no one wants to do
Someone has got to do the dishes.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
When radical Latino activists occupied churches
Felipe Hinojosa profiles resistance movements from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when religion and politics were inextricably linked.
For Valarie Kaur, love is sweet labor
A memoir of an activist whose life is grounded in Sikh mysticism
Can the religious left be as effective in Washington as it’s been on the streets?
Jack Jenkins’s book is informative and persuasive, if not exactly unbiased.
How Killer Mike helped me rethink the work of Christian activism
Protesting in Jesus’ name is an outward act that yields inner transformation.
How local activists shut down the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The stakes were high for those in the pipeline’s path—and they fought accordingly.
The misión integral of Protestant liberation theologians
Samuel Escobar, René Padilla, and other Latin American evangelicals—and how their activism was overshadowed
Divestment? Or shareholder activism?
Debating the best ways to pressure corporations for social good
The black activist women of 100 years ago
Amy Jacques Garvey, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, and the “back to Africa” movement
How I got schooled by Franchesca Ramsey’s hilarious memoir
Ramsey shows the high stakes (and common mistakes) of online activism.
A deep history of women’s cultural criticism
Michelle Dean's book isn't exactly a group biography. But it is a highly entertaining feast of quotes, anecdotes, and analysis.
What does a prophet look like?
Albert Raboteau profiles seven people who shaped the theology and practice of activism in 20th-century America.