Adventist Peace Radio, Episode 37: Community Organizing

Welcome to Adventist Peace Radio, the podcast of the Adventist Peace Fellowship. In this episode, Jeff Boyd interviews Geoffrey Nelson-Blake about his experiences in community organizing, efforts that Geoff began to explore while he was in congregational pastoral ministry.

Geoffrey Nelson-Blake

Geoffrey Nelson-Blake has served for a decade as an Adventist pastor and community organizer and will enter a PhD program in Religion and Practice in Fall 2019 at the Graduate Theological Union. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Religious Dispatches, and in contribution to the book Do Justice: Our Call to Faithful Living.

SHOW NOTES

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Dennis A. Jacobsen, 2001)

Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America (Richard L. Wood, 2002)

Building a People of Power: Equipping Churches to Transform Their Communities (Robert C. Linthicum, 2006)

Bonus: Chapter 12, “Advocates for Social Change,” by Jeff Boyd in Church and Society: Missiological Challenges for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Rudi Maier, ed., 2015) [shameless self-promotion]

CONCLUSION

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