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How to organize within institutions that fear conflict

My faith community wants to do social justice work but every time we try to take a stand on anything controversial half the congregation threatens to leave.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Risk-averse institutional cultures can constrain moral action even when individual members feel called to justice work.

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Worth thinking about

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