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Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing Paperback – April 1, 2001

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Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in the authors 14 years of personal experience in community organizing ministries.

Drawing from the organizing principles of Saul Alinsky, Jacobsen weaves the theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. Designed to be used by congregations and church leaders, as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice opens new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.

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Dennis A. Jacobsen is pastor of an ELCA congregation and the director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over 1,000 clergy that develops national and regional training events to ground the work of congregation-based community organizing in theology and scripture.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press; 1st edition (April 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800632443
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800632441
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.35 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Never More Relevant!
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Things have gotten so bad in 2018 (or write in your year of choice) that many can no longer stomach listening to the news. We can bury our heads, hearts and souls, or we can come together for change. Don't know how or even why? Dennis A. Jacobsen's "Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing" provides roadmaps that go directly to the point with stirring clarity. Rooted in the wisdom of the Abrahamic traditions and the efficacy of the best resistance movements, "Doing Justice" offers an anti-toxin for despair. It moves us from apathy to care and from care to action, as this quote from page 12 demonstrates. "Martin Luther King, Jr., with reference to Paul Tillich, observed that although power without love is tyranny, love without power is sentimentality." United we stand.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a new perspective
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2011
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The author, Dennis A. Jacobsen, gives tremendous incite on how to impact your community through congregational community organizing. He breaks down Urban Ministry in a way that is clear and effective. He does not limit congregational-community organizing to direct services but raises it to what it should be (empowering the people). I would recommend this book to many who would like to transform their community through faith-based initiatives.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014
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This is an easy to read book. I am reading this book for class. The author uses stories from her/his own experience a lot.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2013
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Thank you for getting this book out when you promised. I needed it to teach a class and you delivered it when promised.
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Dee Gray
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010
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By far the BEST book that I have ever read on the subject. It has provided me with a whole new way of thinking!
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I bought this book for reference, so haven't completed reading it. It seems solid on all of the concepts covered.
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Inspiring.
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Philip D. Reifenberg
4.0 out of 5 stars Food for Organized Thought and Action
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2001
I think I speak for many people -- clergy and lay, organizers and the organized -- in decrying the dearth of good, digestible faith-focused written resources for organizing. We scrounge through magazines and periodicals; we "cut-and-paste" from other disciplines (theology, sociology, political science, history, psychology, etc.); we listen to big-name and not-so-big name speakers as they expound with (or without) competence on related topics; and we mutter, "Why doesn't someone write a book?" I am a Catholic priest who's been in parish ministry for the past twenty years, and these have been some of my frustrations. I know from conversations with many colleagues that I am not alone.
So, thank you Dennis Jacobsen! "Doing Justice" is the best book of its type to hit the press in those twenty years! Sure, there've been biographies ("Let Them Call Me Rebel"), case studies ("Streets of Hope", "Upon This Rock"), populist analyses ("Who Will Tell The People?", "You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train"), and much more that has been truly inspirational. But not since Gregory Pierce's "Activism That Makes Sense" (1984) and "Confident & Competent" (1987) has it all been put so neatly, compactly and engagingly under one cover. Not only that, but Jacobsen goes beyond Pierce in integrating what I regard to be both a welcomed and appropriate degree of theological consideration into his discussion.
I have heard Dennis Jacobsen speak on several of the topics covered in "Doing Justice" both in Milwaukee and in the context of Gamaliel Foundation activities. But reading those pieces together with his new (at least, to me!) material is really exciting! I was particularly moved by his handling of "Self-Interest" (Chapter 6), "Building and Sustaining Organizations" (Chapter 10), and "Community" (Chapter 11). In each of these sections, he weaves a profound message that incorporates organizing principles, theological challenge, and psycho-historico-political realism.
Rick Deines's "Studies Guide" as an appendix is pure bonus!!! Even without it, "Doing Justice" would be an excellent primer in organizing for seminarians, judicatorial and/or denominational clergy groups, ecumenical ministerial associations and alliances, and groups within congregations that are either already involved in or considering becoming involved in a community organization. It is also just plain good, refreshing reading for those of us who have been "in the trenches" (or in a rut!) for a while!!!
There are some parts of the picture that are still missing, though. Such related topics as "money", enemies (i.e., adversaries, or "the opposition") and the role of Foundations in the survival and success of the kind of organizing Jacobsen describes could well be the subject of what I truly hope will be his sequel to "Doing Justice."
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