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MFC Reading List (Alum): Competency Four

This page is designed specifically for LIGHT, Alums, and Community Patrons. Current graduate students should access this collection from the Course Reserves and MFC Resources guide.

Competency Four: Social Justice in the Public Square

Is engaged with critical justice issues in the local community and in the larger world.
Can apply the lens of power and privilege in the areas of antiracism, anti-oppression, and multiculturalism.
Understands basics of community organizing and value of broad-based coalitions.
Connects the history of UU justice engagement to the present.

Web Resources

Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment by Manish Mishra-Marzetti (Editor)
Call Number: MFC4 BL65.J87 J868 2018
Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: Liberal Religion in the Public Square by Paul B. Rasor; Dan McKanan
Call Number: MFC4 BL65.P7 R37 2012
The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
Call Number: MFC4 BX9833 .M67 2014
A People So Bold: Theology and Ministry for Unitarian Universalists by John Gibb Millspaugh
Call Number: MFC4 BX9841.3 .P46 2009

The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice by Richard S. Gilbert
Call Number: MFC4 BX9856 .G55 2000
Sacred Service in Civic Space: Three Hundred Years of Community Ministry in Unitarian Universalism by Kathleen Parker; Lee Barker (Foreword by)
Call Number: MFC4 BX9856.P37 2007
Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons For Grassroots Organizing by Linda Stout; Howard Zinn (Foreword by)
Call Number: MFC4 HN65 .S75 1996

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