I joined Restoring Eden as a participant observer in 2016, soon after they carried out a series of citizen science…
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
community organizing
“Populism” in Hong Kong’s contemporary politics
Given the complicated history of populism in the Chinese context, just how has the concept been used and received within…
The religious left left
At BeLoved, we would not call ourselves the religious left (though we are). We would call each other family because…
Making budgets moral again
The release of the Poor People’s Moral Budget calls forth decades of efforts to reframe the budget as a moral…
Interreligious organizing is messy
Religious progressives are a fractious family, making it difficult to adopt and adapt many of the successful strategies of the…
Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
On organizing, feelings, and the body
I miss the curiosity we once held for each other in our churches, neighborhoods, and organizations. That curiosity needs to…
Democracy as a work in progress rather than a work of progress
Let me begin by thanking the contributors to this book forum for their respective reviews. I am enormously grateful for…
“Faithful secularity” as the best hope for democracy
Luke Bretherton's Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life addresses two crucial holes in contemporary understanding…
Faithfully secular?
Community organizing is faith-based, at least in its best-known form. Since the 1940s, organizers in the mold of Saul Alinsky…