Beschreibung:
By Valerie A. Miles-Tribble
This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks.
Introduction: Where's the Church? Part 1: Societal Perspectives 1. Black Lives Matter Times: Why the Church as Change Agent?2. Toxic Silence: Rogue Practices, Double Standards, and Lemming Behavior 3. Can Dry Bones Live? Societal Challenges to Solidarity and Survival Part 2: Theoethical Perspectives 4. Weary Hope: Restorative Ethics in the Praxis of Social Reform Activism5. God Sees: Engaging a Womanist Theoethical Hermeneutic Part 3: Contextual Perspectives 6. Doing the Work: Adaptive Methods for Contextual Praxis 7. On the Road to Oz: Urgency for Prophetic Social Change