Welcome to Exchanges!
A digital space for discussion, learning, and engagement on issues of economics, ecology, and religion.
Training Options
Capital Change: The End of Religion and Business as Usual
Too often, religious responses to economic problems leave the status quo unchecked. This training introduces foundational insights of the Wendland-Cook Program, examines how capitalism shapes all of us to the core, explores alternative models of solidarity, and considers how religion can be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Organizing Church
In this Exchanges training, we explore what the church can learn about itself and about its mission through broad-based community organizing. Here’s our pitch: Strong church institutions depend upon a strong relational fabric grounded in sacred values, because relationships that are grounded in values are more able to withstand change and conflict. Broad-based organizing provides a unique way of building strong relationships grounded in values we hold most dear. The relationship between broad-based organizing and the church is reciprocal and mutually beneficial.
Reclaiming the Labor Movement
In a time when working people all across the globe and specially in the U.S are under attack what, if anything, can religion do about it? Can religion actually radicalize the labor movement as we know it and help to build economic and political power for all working people? We believe the labor movement is crucial to any democratic struggle for greater economic and political justice, and because religious democracy is as rare as economic democracy, deepening the relationship between religion and labor is key to the success of both.
Redefining Essentialness
In this Exchanges training “Redefining Essentialness Apart from Capitalism: Intersections of Economy, Ecology, and Religion” we’ll put the areas of economics, ecology, and religion in conversation in order to identify sources of deep solidarity among humans and nature.
Throughout we’ll turn to a few experts in the field who appeared in our Liberating People and the Planet webinar series that aired during the summer of 2020.
