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About Mary Nelson:
Mary Nelson has spent the last 40 years working in faith-based community development on the west side of Chicago, seeking to carry out the asset based community development principles in concrete ways through her leadership of Bethel New Life, Inc. She is on the national Boards of Sojourners (currently Chair) and Christian Community Development Association. She is also currently the coordinator of the Loyola University (Chicago) Institute of Pastoral Studies Masters in Social Justice and Community Development. Dr. Nelson is also the author of Empowerment.
Religions & Economy
by Dr. Mary Nelson In these times of foreclosures, tight budgets, and shrinking funds, community builders feel like Jesus' disciples with five loaves and two fishes and thousands to feed. During an earlier time before I...
Critical Issues›Discrimination
by Dr. Mary Nelson “O Come Immanuel and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here. Rejoice, rejoice.” The strange contrast of mourning and rejoicing in this Advent song is a contrast with which I am well...
Parliament Blog
A pre-Parliament event in Singapore was held in conjunction with the UN Interfaith Thinkers Campus on November. 13 - 15th. Over 65 people from Singapore, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Australia, China, Canada and elsewhere, who came together in a dynamic gathering to dialog and identify possible interfaith...
Parliament Blog
I just finished reading Jim Wallis’s new and timely book, America’s Original Sin – Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America. Although White Christians and churches are the primary focus of this book, it is just as pertinent to a wider audience. The issue of racism permeates all the...
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