Urban Leadership Institute
The Urban Leadership Institute seeks to engage in the academic conversation surrounding urban leadership in holistic development work. Focusing on religious and social movements that create lasting transformation, the Institute contributes to critical academia and development practices through hosting summits, trainings, and seminars.
Events & Publications
Resourcing Urban Transformation (Webinar Series)
Explore the series of presentations and hear from a diverse group of experienced change-makers about innovative community development strategies.
Study Opportunities
WCIU offers courses on Urban Leadership in our M.A. in Transformational Urban Leadership as well as a Certificate in Leadership of Urban Movements.
TUL 500 – Biblical Theology in an Urban Context
This course builds a biblical theology overview that connects the motif of the Kingdom of God to issues of poverty, oppression, community development, and church growth in urban poor communities.
TUL 520 – Urban Spirituality
This course expands theologies of the Holy Spirit and his work among the urban poor. It emphasizes care and nurturing of workers, practical application of the spiritual disciplines, and communicating between diverse understandings of the work of the Spirit.
TUL 640 - Entrepreneurial and Organizational Leadership
This course introduces the concepts and skills of entrepreneurial and organizational leadership required to initiate new movement structures among the urban poor.
Interested in taking these courses as part of the M.A. in Transformational Urban Leadership?
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Movement Partnerships
The Urban Leadership Institute is honored to partner with many groundbreaking movements and leaders around the world, here are just a few:
Land Justice Network
A developing global network of Christians engaged in land justice issues in the slums and rural/tribal contexts of dispossession. We are seeking to bring theological reflection about the Kingdom of God, land, and advocacy to bear on global and local conversations. From this, we seek to encourage wisdom in action. Visit https://landrights-urbanleaders.nationbuilder.com/ for more information.
The MATUL COMMISSION
Establishing a global cadre of educational practitioner-scholars - the MATUL Commission. Commission began in 2002 in Brazil when we gathered 25 of our leaders from missions around the world and discussed compatibility of our training models. We determined to set up Masters, Bachelors and grassrooots training processes.
The history, values, content of discussions, ex[aniosn of schools, underlying principles may be found at www.urbanleaders.org/ma
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