Benne Center for Church & Society

Founded in 1982, the Benne Center for Church & Society brings Christian perspectives to contemporary challenges of church and world. The Center sees that the most important human decisions, both public and private, are profoundly affected by religious commitments and therefore it seeks to encourage dialogue informed by that recognition. It encourages conversation between church and society, sacred and secular.

Serious religious traditions in particular are comprehensive accounts of life and reality. While these accounts certainly apply to the private life, they do not stop there. Such religious accounts provide understandings and interpretations of the public world and affect individual and corporate action in that world. Religion as a person- and institution-forming enterprise vitally concerns the Center.