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Aaron Stauffer

Rev. Aaron Stauffer, PhD, is the Director of Online Learning and the Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His forthcoming book Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Values, and Broad-based Community Organizing, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 2020 with a PhD in social ethics.

Essays

Theorizing Domination Itself: Philosophy, Organizing Movements, and Vincent Lloyd’s <em>Black Dignity</em>

The need for rigor in our organizing movements is clear. The obverse of this is also true: there is a deep need for struggle in our philosophy.

Attuning the Church, Debating What Lies Beyond Racial Capitalism

The true gift Tran has given us is a theologically provocative understanding of the church as a certain kind of deep economy. I will be thinking with it and learning from it for a long time.

Cultivating Justice and Hope amid Different Worlds: An Interview with Silvana Rabinovich

Following this path, I intended to do a non-punitive reading on Cain’s wandering by presenting it as God’s opportunity to cultivate the land while moving around the territory. This view of the nomad seeks to rehabilitate another type of relationality with the Earth by recovering its dignity in different horizons.