A Leader Has Followers: Alex Tindal Wiesendanger

Drawing on long experience working in churches and faith-based communities around issues of social justice, our guest Alex Tindal Wiesendanger offers a handbook to translate a commitment to social justice into effective action.

His recent book, Seeds of Justice, offers a very practical guide for community organizations, non-profits, and especially church congregations.

Beginning with the need to move beyond charity to justice, he then guides readers from being activists to becoming agents of transformation within their church and the world. This involves learning how to build power through relationships and listening. Finally, it means developing congregations capable of wielding power in the public sphere.

Alex Tindal Wiesendanger received a Master's degree in Social Justice and Community Development from Loyola University, Chicago. He worked with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, lived in a Catholic Worker community, and served as director of Organizing for the Community Renewal Society and as associate director of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing. He lives with his family in New York City.