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LAND & WATER SCHOOL
Word and World is cooperating with grass roots activists, artists, and community builders to open a new space for movement engagement. While historically focused on bridging the gulf between seminary, sanctuary, and street, this initiative is now committed to collaboration beyond the domain of faith-based organizing. This school is a tri-cultural, tri-spiritual encounter bringing together Christian, hip-hop, and indigenous peoples to dig deep into the questions of land, water, and environmental justice. Here on equal footing, hip-hop visioning will meet Biblical inspiration, ancestral self-determination trade wisdom with anti-oppression spirituality, indigenous sovereignty make common cause with theological liberation. Work towards a shared future of social justice and ecological sustainability will actively embrace creative inspiration rooted in struggle to decolonize this land, our minds and cultures, and the traditions that move and define us.
WHO WE ARE
The cornerstones Word and World have been a series of ecumenical and inclusive schools that integrate the insights and experiences of “seminary, sanctuary, and street”: the first school in Greensboro, NC, focused on the legacies of the civil rights movement; the second in Tucson, AR, centered on the philosophies and practices of liberation theology; the third school in Philadelphia, PA highlighted the struggles of the peace movement; and the fourth school in Rochester, NY focused on the social, economic, and ecclesiastical changes engendered by faith-based feminist, womanist, mujerista, and LGBT movements. Subsequent schools in Memphis, TN and Tar Heel, NC drew on the tradition of faith and labor organizing for economic justice. The legacy of these “streams” informed the Mentoring Program curriculum.
OFFERINGS
SCHOOLSThe cornerstones Word and World have been a series of ecumenical and inclusive schools that integrate the insights and experiences of seminary, sanctuary, and street.
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MENTORING PROGRAM
The Mentoring Program puts passionate 22–30-year-olds with a thirst for justice in conversation with some of the most influential radical theologians and activist-scholars of our day.
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RETREATSWord and World offers a variety of retreats and events.
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