The Bush Still Burns: How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation
Terry Allen Moe, "The Bush Still Burns: How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation"
English | ISBN: 1506468691 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1506468691 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Terry Allen Moe came as pastor to Redeemer Lutheran, a traditional, working-class congregation in a poorer, mixed-race neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, in 1981. Five US presidents, six Portland mayors, and four Lutheran bishops later, Redeemer had been transformed into an innovative, spiritual-not-religious, member-based nonprofit called Leaven Community, and a new ELCA congregation–Salt and Light Lutheran–nested in the midst of Leaven.
This is the story of how an intertwining of spirituality and organizing transformed a pastor and congregation. Using the metaphor of paying attention to the voice of God in the burning bush (Exodus 3), Moe describes how he and the congregation turned to the burning bush of deepened spirituality coupled with hard-nosed organizing embodied in the IAF network. The process was not easy or smooth, but the pastor and people changed, and together they impacted the larger Portland community.
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