Fellow Travellers
Below are links to projects and organizations that are, or have been, connected to the Project on Lived Theology, or that have goals similar to those of the Project.
The Center for Responsible Lending, Washington, DC
Since 2002, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) has protected homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. This mission grows directly from their affiliation with Self-Help, one of the nation's largest non-profit community development lenders. For 30 years, Self-Help has worked to create ownership and economic opportunity in underserved communities through responsible loans and financial services.
Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries (CALM) is a partnership among the residents of the Prospect Avenue neighborhood
(including Blue Ridge Commons Apartments, Prospect & Orangedale Avenues, and Bailey Road), local churches, and Trinity Presbyterian (our founding church partner). This partnership between residents and church volunteers began in 1995. "Together, we desire to address spiritual, educational, and economic needs by offering Christ-centered programs and by sharing our lives together." Read a 2005 interview
with Tonya Howard, Tutoring Coordinator at Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries.
City Seminary of New York, New York, NY
The purpose of City Seminary of New York is to seek the peace of our city through theological education. City Seminary is an intercultural learning community focused on the study of Scripture, mission, applied theology, and the changing church. Through this learning community, their imagination is being shaped for the work of God’s peaceable kingdom in the city. Virginia Seminar member Mark Gornik is the Director of City Seminary of New York and the author of To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City (Eerdmans, 2002). Read his City Seminary blog.
The Foundation For Change, San Diego, CA
The Foundation for Change nutures movements for social justice in the San Diego/Tijuana region. By organizing donors, awarding grants and supporting leaders, The Foundation For Change helps to build organizations and networks in historically under-resourced communities on both sides of the border.
Global Justice Center, New York, NY
The mission of the Global Justice Center is to work with women leaders on the strategic and timely legal enforcement of international equality guarantees.
Grace Urban Ministries, San Francisco, CA
Grace Urban Ministries
(GUM), Inc. is a 501[c]3 nonprofit corporation that seeks the well-being of children, youth, and families in San Francisco through academic assistance, job training, and other community services.
Idealist.org/Action Without Borders, New York, NY; Portland, OR; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
International Justice Mission (IJM), Washington, DC
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems. Read an article on IJM's mission written by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Samantha Power and featured in the Jan. 19 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
ONE, Washington, DC
Co-founded by Bono, the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, ONE is dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.
Poverty Studies, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Poverty Studies, Inc. is a website resource that exists to encourage communication between the academic study of religion and those active in issues of global poverty and hunger.
Proyecto Pastoral at Delores Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Proyector Pastoral
at Dolores Mission is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide training, education and social services within the Pico-Aliso/Boyle Heights district of East Los Angeles.
Restorative Community, Charlottesville, VA
The Restorative Community Foundation (RCF) is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based non-profit organization that seeks to foster awareness and spread the use of best practices in the emerging fields of restorative justice and restorative practices within communities and social institutions. Read an interview with Christa Pierpont Lightburn, the founder of the Restorative Community Foundation.
Sandtown Habitat for Humanity, Baltimore, MD
Sandtown
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian housing organization here in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore with the purpose of rebuilding the vacant housing in Sandtown, increasing homeownership and improving the health of the community.
Scriptural Reasoning, Charlottesville, VA
Scriptural Reasoning is the communal practice of reading sacred scriptures, in small groups, together. Normally the passages of scripture chosen are Jewish, Christian and Muslim and are linked together by a particular issue, theme, story or image. When read together in this way participants--or “reasoners”--have found that astonishing, powerful and, at times, quite surprising, new conversations and relationships may open up.
Survivors of Torture, International, San Diego, CA
Survivors of Torture
was founded in 1997 to build a healing community for survivors of politically motivated torture living in San Diego County. Survivors has served more than 1,000 torture survivors from at least 60 different countries.
The Other Journal, Seattle, WA
The Other Journal is an online quarterly publication that promotes vibrant discourse at the intersections of theology and culture.
The Social Edge, Ontario, Canada
The Social Edge is a social justice and faith magazine from Canada.
University of Southern California's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Los Angeles, CA
The Center for Religion and Civic Culture is an organized research unit of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. It promotes discipline-based, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary research related to the involvement of religion and religious institutions in civic culture.
Legal Aid and Justice Center, Charlottesville, VA
The Legal Aid Justice Center provides legal representation for low-income individuals in Virginia. Programs include advocacy for immigrants, children, elders and institutionalized persons.
Virginia Organizing Project, Charlottesville, VA
The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives.
Vital Theology, Fort Collins, CO
Vital Theology is an independent, ecumenical newsletter that provides thoughtful, theological perspectives on the trends and events that shape our lives.
Voice of Calvary, Jackson, MS
Voice of Calvary Ministries (VOC) exists to rebuild people to rebuild communities through the Gospel. VOC serves as a resource to the Church by providing holistic programs which build strong individuals, families, churches, and communities in order to enable them to reach their full potential in Christ, physically, spiritually, economically and socially.
Word Made Flesh, Omaha, NE
Word Made Flesh is called and committed to serve Jesus among the most vulnerable of the world’s poor. This calling is realized as a prophetic ministry for, and an incarnational, holistic mission among the poor.