Religion and Justice
The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice is an interdisciplinary program located at Vanderbilt University. We focus on issues of justice that arise at the intersection of religion, economics, and ecology. Web: religionandjustice.org
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Tennessee Testimonies Project (opens the original)
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Phil ScholerIn her 1989 commencement address at Oberlin College, the eminent philosopher Audre Lorde imparted, “Learn to use what you feel to move you toward action. Change, personal and political, does not come about in a day, nor a year. But it is our day-to-day decisions, the way in which we testify with our lives to those things in which we say we believe, that empower us” (Lorde). Centered on Lorde’s concept of testimony here, the Tennessee Testimonies Project collects in-depth oral histori
Labor Day 2026: Queering Labor (opens the original)
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Labor Day is often marked by expressions of gratitude for work and workers. Yet it can also provide an opportunity for faith communities to ask deeper questions: Why is some labor valued more than other labor? Who benefits from the work of others? And how do our theological assumptions shape the ways we understand power, class, and economic life?In this Labor Day contribution, Joerg Rieger challenges some of the most common assumptions about class in both academic and religious discourse. Rather
Charlotte Jacobs on Queering Theology, Reproductive Labor, and the Silencing of Mary (opens the original)
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Joerg Rieger is headed to Theology Beer Camp! (opens the original)
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Paul Was Never a Conservative (opens the original)
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