This project consists of ethnographic, religious studies, and theological research on the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Organizing for Mission Cohort, a network of nearly a dozen Lutheran ministries from across the United States utilizing the arts of community organizing and pursuing racial equity to build relationships and communities, and address context-specific racial, economic, and environmental injustice. The project also critically examines how these ministries engage people on the margins of privilege and the dominant structures and narratives oppressing them. The research builds on recent work in the field, especially Richard L. Wood and Brad R. Fulton’s A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy (Chicago, 2015); Luke Bretherton’s Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge, 2015); and Jeffrey Stout’s Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America (Princeton, 2012). It contributes case studies of ministries focusing more on the innovative integration of community organizing with religious life (and the resulting revisions of both), in addition to their doing of social, economic, and environmental justice and racial equity. More so than the above books, this project analyzes what “church” looks like when people use the arts of community organizing as both a preferred mode of civic intervention and neighborhood revitalization, and to develop and structure the church’s own life.