Houses of Worship Join Together for Crisis Training
Houses of Worship Join Together for Crisis Care Training On September 11, 2017, The Sagamore Institute was pleased to host the first-ever gathering of Indianapolis’ edition of the Ready to…
Racial Wealth Gaps and What Your Church Can Do About It
A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.”
Amy’s Q Talk
Dr. Amy Sherman delivered a talk to Q Ideas in New York City on the themes of her book, Kingdom Calling. Amy explains how we should all use our vocational power to make the world rejoice.
Rethinking Wealth
Commonwealth has developed this set of resources to help our impact investing community rethink wealth and excel in stewardship: To Make the World Rejoice, Citizens as Better Economic Actors, and Churches as better Economic Actors. Listen as Commonwealth managing director Jay Hein introduces these themes in his 2019 Rethinking Wealth address.
More God Less Crime
On July 18, 2011, Sagamore Institute hosted a book signing with criminologist Byron R. Johnson. Through years of research, Johnson has uncovered strong evidence that religion can be a powerful antidote to crime, but why is it that this “faith factor” is rarely included in traditional conversations about prisoner rehabilitation? In his new release More God, Less Crime, Johnson explores this discrepancy and provides readers with practical insights that could transform the effectiveness of our current criminal justice system.