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Investigate. Educate. Organize. Working at the intersection of religion, economics, and ecology. Chaired by Joerg Rieger @ Vanderbilt Divinity School https://linktr.ee/religionandjustice
“What happens when we refuse to separate race and class in our theological thinking?”
Joerg Rieger brings James Cone and Frederick Herzog into conversation to explore what liberation looks like when “the concerns of the oppressed” are held together rather than divided.
The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice and Vanderbilt Divinity School will host a showing of THE MUD followed by a discussion with the director and Vanderbilt faculty.
When: Thursday, January 8, 6:00-9:00 PM
RSVP: mailchi.mp/religionandj...
"Rolling up to the Carcere Bollate, the prison that has become the epicenter of Italian prison reform, you can't help but to feel a deep sense of underwhelm. The Italian prison system is unfortunately modeled on the US carceral system."
www.religionandjustice.org/blog/worker-...
STARTING IN ONE HOUR: vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 4, 2025 FOR
Unite and Conquer: The False Promises of Christian Nationalism
with Joerg Rieger, Jorge Aquino, Tripp Fuller, and Gab Lisi
bit.ly/uniteandconq...
JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 4, 2025 FOR
Unite and Conquer: The False Promises of Christian Nationalism
with Joerg Rieger, Jorge Aquino, Tripp Fuller, and Gab Lisi
bit.ly/uniteandconq...
Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy and his own German-American perspective, Rieger argues that all theology is inherently political - and that we need to move beyond traditional political theology to address the deeper economic forces shaping our world.
The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice celebrates the warm Pasifika welcome for our founder Joerg Rieger & Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger by the Pacific Conference of Churches.
Honored in a traditional ceremony, they join a week of lectures, workshops & talanoa on justice, faith & community.
Rieger reads scripture as God’s solidarity with the oppressed. In creation, God “getting divine hands dirty,” Exodus where God “joins the struggle on the side of the oppressed,” and Jesus “born into the working class [who] never moves up and out."
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We are excited to share the launch of The Journal of Contemporary Pasifika Theologies (CPT), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal amplifying theological scholarship rooted in the Pasifika region.
cpt.pcu.ac.fj/index.php/cp...
It is time to re-think religion. Since January 6, 2021, Christianity in the United States has predominantly been associated with white Christian nationalism and the politics of neoliberal capitalism. How can we re-think religion to be part of the solution?
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Northey Lecture – Joerg Rieger
Considering the multiple relations of religion and power, what difference does religion make, for good and for ill, and what might be the constructive contributions of theology be in fostering global solidarities?
REGISTER HERE: events.humanitix.com/northey-lect...
Was Pope Francis a “Marxist Pope,” or something more nuanced? Fr. Bruce Morrill helps us sort faith, economics, and ecology—Jesuits, Vatican II, liberation theology, Pope Francis’s critique of “an economy that kills” from Laudato Si’ to Fratelli Tutti.
Out now: www.buzzsprout.com/2237315/epis...
Faith, labor & democracy meet Aug 18 in our Labor Day webinar “Re-thinking Religion.” Panel: Joerg Rieger, Cassandra Gould & Aaron Stauffer. Take on Christian nationalism, capitalism & solidarity economies. Free RSVP: linktr.ee/religionandj...
Throwback to 2022, when Richard Wolff and Joerg Rieger discussed the troubling history of how Christianity in the U.S. is used to promote capitalism and conservatism.
I liked Soelle’s “Suffering” a lot, always glad to see it come up again.
Now Live: On mourning and the transformation of suffering into solidarity.
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On July 2, Joerg Rieger delivered the keynote “Christian Nationalism in the United States: History, Power, and Alternatives” at an ecumenical consultation in Seoul.
Check out the conference's joint communique: www.oikoumene.org/resources/do...
“Building strong community relationships is essential for any genuine social change.” — Aaron Stauffer
Hear more on @trippfuller.bsky.social's Homebrewed Christianity: democratic practice, class analysis & Solidarity Circles.
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Live at The Bias. Gab Lisi reflects upon the urgent need for power analyses—clear, honest accounts of who holds power, how they wield it, and at whose expense.
christiansocialism.com/2025/06/20/f...
What happens when we read theology through the lens of power, capital, and everyday labor?
Rieger traces the long arc from the Roman Empire to today’s “Capitalocene,” arguing that empires may shift forms, but grassroots creativity keeps breaking through.
LISTEN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQU...
Decolonizing Development and Religion examines how economic initiatives, grassroots theologians, and Indigenous perspectives unsettle the colonial assumptions that still shape global “development.”
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In a new Religion & Justice blog, Gab Lisi traces Pride from Stonewall to top-surgery scars to Catholic social teaching—showing why solidarity, not branding, is the heart of liberation. Read here → www.religionandjustice.org/blog/pride-p...
Joerg Rieger argues that true democracy would not only require political power, but economic power.
Image: Victor Dubreuil, “Safe Money,” c.1898 or later. U.S. National Gallery of Art. Common Domain
Link in bio.
Rieger’s WCC keynote argued U.S. slavery created an economy wherein elites maintain control through divide-and-conquer racism that pits Black and white workers against each other and unite-and-conquer tactics that lures poor whites into identifying with elites.
Watch: linktr.ee/religionandjustice
Leadership grows from “relational power”—trust woven in shared struggle and rooted in sacred value, says Aaron Stauffer.
Reflect, then schedule one intentional 1-on-1 this week to listen for what’s sacred.
Applications for the next Solidarity Circles cohort are open. Link in bio.
"Labor organizations with Muslim majority workplaces must engage with their members in their faith and as workers." @profhuq.bsky.social
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UPCOMING LECTURE | The God of Jesus and the God of Caesar - Christian Faith, Empire and Resistance
May 14, 2025, 7:00 PM–until 8:30 PM
Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Theology, Beethovenstraße 25, 04107 Leipzig (@unileipzig.bsky.social)
Join Solidarity Circles, a 9-month virtual peer-network designed to help align your institution or community with the solidarity economy.
🔗 Learn more and apply today: tr.ee/bxPEC55K-o
