To Love Our Neighbors: Radical Practices in Solidarity, Sufficiency, and Sustainability - Paperback

by Joe Blosser (Author)

In a world where "neighbor" has become as meaningless as a "friend" or "follower" online, this book shows how true neighbor love is the long-term work of forming and maintaining more just communities.

In To Love Our Neighbors activist and ethicist Joe Blosser weaves together resources in theology, community development, economics, anti-racism, and environmental sustainability to help community leaders, organizations, students, churches, and neighborhoods embrace solidarity for change. Even with the best intentions many current practices of loving our neighbors often do more harm than good.

Offering new practices of neighbor love, Blosser guides us to live in solidarity with others across our differences, exercise sufficiency in our economic lives, and care for the sustainability of our planet and communities. When we engage in these practices, we foster the shared sense of common good, mutual responsibility, and interconnectedness that Jesus intended.

Author Biography

Joe Blosser is a community builder and ethicist whose work drives at the intersections of faith, economics, and social change. He previously served as an associate professor of religion and philosophy and director of a university-based center for community engagement. Now he focuses on place-based social change and serves as the chief impact officer for a family foundation. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, an MDiv from Vanderbilt University, a BS from Texas Christian University, and is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).