Table of Contents

Introduction
1 The Roots of Faith-Rooted Organizing
2 Dreaming God?s Dream Together: The Goals of Faith-Rooted Organizing
3 Our Starting Place, the Call of the Poor
4 Discerning the Kairos
5 Questions of Power and Hope
6 The Gift of Christ-Centered Community
7 Individual Gifts
8 Prophetic Advocacy and Public Witness
9 Recruitment: God?s Pitchfork
10 Developing the Body of Christ
11 Prophetic Spirituality: Sustaining the Struggle
Appendix: Faith-Rooted Serpent Power
Acknowledgments
For Further Reading
Notes
Index of Names and Subjects
Scripture Index
About Red Letter Christians

About the Author

Peter Goodwin Heltzel is associate professor of systematic theology and director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary. He serves as assistant pastor of evangelism at Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City, and is the author of Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race and American Politics and Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation.

Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. For over eleven years she was the executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE). She teaches and trains people throughout the United States in the principles and methods of faith-rooted organizing.

Reviews

"Faith-Rooted Organizing blends the voice of an evangelical-activist theologian in Heltzel with the homespun profundity of a seasoned pastor and campaign organizer in Salvatierra. The authors delight readers with complementary writing styles: Heltzel speaks through theological propositions, interpolated intermittently with jazz references and theological punch lines; Salvatierra communicates through proverbs, organizing anecdotes, poignant biblical passages, and narrative side notes. "The result is a well-argued and accessible text that should resonate from the seminary to the sanctuary."
*Andrew Wilkes, Sojourners, August 2014*