Justice as well as Mercy

Our second Just Church podcast is now online! This week, Josh Harris speaks to community organisers Paul Amuzie, Froi Legaspi and CTC Director Angus Ritchie about acting for justice as well as mercy.

How can churches work with their neighbours, not only to bind the wounds caused by injustice – but to address the causes?

Josh also interviews Vanessa Conant on why community organising is so central to her church’s mission and ministry.

Next week, we will be considering the impact on ministry of Moving out of Lockdown – with a discussion with Vanessa Conant and Graham Hunter, and an interview with Richard Springer discussing the impact of the pandemic (and the move out of lockdown) on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people.

Notes on the podcast

People of Power – the introduction to church-based community organising which Josh refers to in the podcast – is here

Froi’s blog on estates organising is here

You can find out more about the Fair Energy Campaign here and the Living Wage for Care Workers campaign here

St Mary’s Walthamstow’s website is here

 

Notes on the project

This new project has been developed in collaboration with the Barking Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Chelmsford and the Stepney Episcopal Area of the Diocese of London – and is being funded by the Church of England’s Strategic Development Fund

Podcast Credits

Podcast produced by the Centre for Theology and Community.

Music: Carefree Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/