Congress on Urban Ministry: "Together, Building a Just Economy"

SCUPE’s 17th
biennial Congress On Urban Ministry (June 23-26, 2014 at DePaul
University’s Lincoln Park campus, Chicago, IL) will bring together clergy,
church leaders, seminary students and urban ministry practitioners to address
this question of Building a Just Economy
with rigorous theological reflection and organizing for action.

SCUPE’s 2014 Congress
on Urban Ministry is being held at a kairos moment for economic justice and
the role faith leaders and faith communities can play in easing economic and
social disparity.  The theme for this
June’s Congress on Urban Ministry, “Together,
Building a Just Economy,” is very timely. Conversations on the rapidly
worsening income and economic gap are being held every day from among local
leaders to global leaders, including President Obama and Pope Francis.  Faith leaders – clergy, seminarians and lay
leaders – are being called to act today

The 2014 Congress on Urban Ministry will provide an
important briefing on the issues at hand and engage participants in critical
conversation about what faith leaders and communities can do to be a part of
the solution. Rev. Dr. Otis Moss
III (Senior Pastor at Trinity UCC in Chicago) and Dr. Helene Slassarev-Jamir
(Professor of Urban Ministry at Claremont School of Theology) will co-chair the
Congress.  Additional Congress plenary
speakers will include:

·        
Dr.
Allen Boesak (South African Anti-Apartheid Activist and Liberation Theologian),

·        
Bishop
Sally Dyck (Social Justice Advocate and United Methodist Bishop),

·        
Dr.
Saskia Sassan (Urban Sociologist from Columbia University), and;

·        
Sister
Simone Campbell from the Nuns on the Bus campaign (a national tour by Catholic
nuns speaking out on social justice issues including a call for immigration
reform and action on the economic inequity in the United States.)

These
influential and renowned thought leaders will guide participants in theological
reflection on the unprecedented level of wealth inequality today. Working
together, the Congress on Urban Ministry will create a platform for churches,
community organizations, political and business leaders to strategize together
on how to address this growing problem.

The Congress
will also include powerful and pragmatic workshops led by some of the most
cutting edge thinkers in urban ministry, community organizing, theology, and
economics.  There will also be networking
opportunities with other religious and community leaders in what a previous
Congress participant called “the single most inclusive gathering of resources
for ministry in the city.”

For
more information or to register go to: http://scupe.org/congress-on-urban-ministry/