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Although there are other organizations with the name Praxis, and there's even a Praxis Project in the Midwest, we've had our name since 1995.
The name is drawn from three meanings for the word Praxis. The first is from Catholic pedagogy where it means practicing one's religion or applying the principles of religion to day to day living. This value, practicing or living out one's beliefs—especially as they relate to social justice, is an important part of our organizational philosophy.
Karl Marx took the term to apply it more broadly to the process of applying theory through practice as a methodology for developing more informed theory and practice for social change. Of course, this requires attention to both reflection and direct action, and their relationship to each other. This process is the core of our work.
The final meaning is drawn from more modern roots—Star Trek lore. (If you have no idea about Star Trek, please bear with us while we talk to other trekkies…)
Praxis was a Klingon moon that imploded leaving their world in disarray. The Klingon people had little choice but to make a strategic alliance with the Federation in order to save their world. Klingons had long warred with the Federation. They were an "exotic", messy addition to the Federation's fairly homogenous alliance...
