This month’s Interfaith Bookshelf featured title is We Need to Build by Eboo Patel, long-time interfaith activist and leader of the national organization Interfaith America. Patel weaves stories of social change with faith traditions in a practical vision for positive community organizing.

The goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order… We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well. (book jacket)

“We will know we have achieved Interfaith America when…religious diversity is understood as a powerful and visible asset that ought to be engaged positively and proactively rather than a dynamic that is either invisible or a threat.”