Building Up a New World

Congregational Organizing for Transformative Impact

Author: Anne Dunlap and Vahisha Hasan

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The church is an organizing body. No matter how big or small the membership roll, no matter a rural or urban setting, churches organize people. So what might happen if churches organized (more) effectively for community impact, for policy reform, for justice?

Building Up a New World explores possible--and practical--answer to this critical question from culturally diverse perspectives. Written by community organizers, ministers, healers, and resisters, Building Up a New World is the guiding fire that congregations needs to rise up for such a time as this.

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"Audre Lorde is famously quoted as saying, 'For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house...' Neither will the oppressive tools of the past ever help us build a world free of the theologies and praxes that keep us bound. Building Up a New World offers the best thinking of proven movement builders who have forged new tools to build without the crucible of pain." --Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister, United Church of Christ

"If we really want to build a new world, this book is a map through which we will comprehend the profound pain in this world as we journey toward transformational justice for the new world we must embrace. Our calling as faithful people demands that we be contractors at the building sites!" --Patricia E. de Jong, Chair, Board of Directors, Church World Service

"This book is for anyone who knows--or even senses--that there is a difference between the world as it is and the world as it could be. Invitation, instigation, and inspiration are beautifully woven together ... to engage congregations in a movement that will settle for nothing less than a radically transformed world." --Joshua Baird, Team Leader for Global H.O.P.E.

About the Author

Rev. Anne Dunlap is the Faith Organizing Coordinatorfor Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a UCC minister, and the founder ofFierceRev Remedies. Nurtured into faith-rooted organizing in the CentralAmerica solidarity movement in the 1980s, she is grateful to Central American,Black, immigrant, worker, and indigenous leaders who have challenged her tothink and act deeply about what it means to be human, and to be free. Proud tobe from Arkansas, Anne now lives in Buffalo, NY, with her beloved and theirkitty.Rev. Vahisha Hasan, the Executive Director ofMovement in Faith, is deeply invested in ways activist and faith communitiesfurther healing and collective liberation. She is also the rapid responsecoordinator for TRACC4Movements (Trauma Response and Crisis Care) and directorof SEAL Initiatives at American Baptist College (Social Justice, Equity, Advocacy,and Leadership). Vahisha is deeply grateful for her biological, chosen, andmovement family. You can find her moving to the end of her own rainbow on IGand Twitter @VHasanMIF.