Faith as fountainhead
Marshall Ganz ’91, who is credited with devising a grassroots organizing model successfully used by President Obama, said Wednesday evening that religious faith can play a greater role in community organizing. “Too often, the default position has been to take faith out of the conversation. We can’t have any God talk. People will be offended,” said Ganz, who is a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Education, and a lecturer on social studies. “Secular fundamentalism has robbed many movements of their ability for moral expression.” Ganz spoke as part of a panel titled “Faith-Based Community Organizing: How Working With the Religious Other Can Save the World.” The panel was held at the Harvard Divinity School’s Braun Room at Andover Hall. Over the years, Ganz has been involved in many of the left’s most celebrated struggles, and he said religious...