Peter Heltzel and Alexia Salvatierra’s Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (Intervarsity, 2013) deals with a difficult question: With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? In response, Heltzel and Salvatierra pose (and answer) a different question: What if Christians were to shape their organizing around the implications of the truth that God is real and Jesus is risen?

Their work provides a model of Christian social action focused on helping local communities of faith tackle issues of systemic injustice. To watch a book trailer for Faith-Rooted Organizing, click here.

Peter Heltzel is an associate professor at New York Theological Seminar and co-editor of the SILT book project called Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins. Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has been the Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) for over eleven years.