{"id":4559,"date":"2017-03-28T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:48:22","slug":"book-announcement-organizing-church-grassroots-practices-for-embodying-change-in-your-congregation-your-community-and-our-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/n8q0c_9uAdc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/n8q0c_9uAdc<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Organizing-Church-Grassroots-Practices-Congregation\/dp\/0827227639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2951 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2017\/03\/1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\">Watch Dr. Daniel Rhodes, IPS faculty member,talk about his recently released book: Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Reviews<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of people are fed up with &#8216;organized religion.&#8217; They recognize that religion is too often poorly organized-or well organized around the wrong purposes! Drawing wisdom from the important field of community organizing, this book helps you imagine a church organizing well and for the right purposes.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Brian D. McLaren, Activist, Author<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conder and Rhodes have led community organizing ministry in their contexts; now they guide us in organizing the church Christ means for us to be.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Will Willimon, Duke Divinity School, United Methodist School (retired)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A very timely book! Tim and Dan invite you down a path that&#8217;s not for the faint of heart or the dull of spirit.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Vanna Fox, Senior Vice President, Wild Goose Festival<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Church is badly in need of an ecclesiology that is world-centered and not self-centered.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Gerald Kellman, Reinvestment Organizer and Barack Obama&#8217;s Organizing Mentor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Dr. Daniel Rhodes, IPS faculty member,talk about his recently released book: Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World. &nbsp; Reviews &#8220;Lots of people are fed up with &#8216;organized religion.&#8217; They recognize that religion is too often poorly organized-or well organized around the wrong purposes! 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