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WHO WE ARE
Movement work flows like rivulets and streams, converging and branching to transform the landscape. Word and World: A People’s School was conceived in 2001 as week-long immersive gatherings organized around “streams” of movement history. The headwaters were the underground seminaries of the Confessing Church in Germany, the Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights movement, the “womenchurch” experiments of Christian feminists and the struggle for LGBT and gender justice, the base communities movement animated by liberation theology, the political models of popular education such as union schools, the Highlander Center, and the Center for Popular Economics, as well as the land-based songlines of Watershed Discipleship.
The schools, and later the weekend gatherings and mentoring programs offered by Word and World, wove together bible study, social analysis, shared ritual, and public liturgy as a way to overcome the divides among the “seminary, the sanctuary, the streets, and the soil.”
These gatherings offered a kind of baptism into the River of movement history for many of us who participated. Now the stream of Word and World finds confluence with the work of Geez. The board that has held Word and World through a fallow period is turning over the nonprofit status and the wealth of history to serve the vision of Geez. The river will eddy around a new board this Spring. The magazine, of course, has a flow and a history of its own and these streams will gain force and momentum by coming together. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.”
To see how Word and World continues, visit www.geezmagazine.org.
The schools, and later the weekend gatherings and mentoring programs offered by Word and World, wove together bible study, social analysis, shared ritual, and public liturgy as a way to overcome the divides among the “seminary, the sanctuary, the streets, and the soil.”
These gatherings offered a kind of baptism into the River of movement history for many of us who participated. Now the stream of Word and World finds confluence with the work of Geez. The board that has held Word and World through a fallow period is turning over the nonprofit status and the wealth of history to serve the vision of Geez. The river will eddy around a new board this Spring. The magazine, of course, has a flow and a history of its own and these streams will gain force and momentum by coming together. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.”
To see how Word and World continues, visit www.geezmagazine.org.
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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