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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008+ John Ortberg’s “Lessons from the Election: Seven Deadly Sins of Evangelicals in Politics“:
I want to propose the “Seven Deadly Sins of Evangelicals and Politics.” You may have a few of your own to add. But the spirit of such lists in the past was not to add to our store of information but to [...]
On the Poor among U.S.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger. That’s mad, that is mad.” - Bono
+ Jordon Cooper reflects on the impact, or lack thereof, of the [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008How Not to Help the Poor
Watch The Acton Institute for Religion and Liberty’s approach to alleviating poverty and empowering economic justice. The video features, among others, Rudy Carrasco, CCDA board member and friend. Appropriately, Rudy’s “Protest and Invest” ideas are the video’s final word.
Preview Rudy’s Protest and Invest and other insights into urban [...]
Beyond the Noise: Worship and Justice
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008- I just submitted two chapters for a forthcoming multi-author book project on justice (more to come), but had to omit the following story from the chapter on worship and justice (co-authored by Pastor Louis Carlo) for lack of space. Enjoy.
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We must move beyond figuring out what song will we sing and move instead [...]
Big city “graduation rates”
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Another reason educational inequity is the greatest injustice of our time:
The likelihood that a ninth-grader in one of the nation’s biggest cities will clutch a diploma four years later amounts to a coin toss — not much better than a 50-50 chance, new research finds.
Cross into the suburbs, and the odds improve dramatically.
The findings, which [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Wendy Kopp on Education Reform
Watch the pioneering education reformer Wendy Kopp of Teach for America — one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People” according to Time magazine (2008) and one of “America’s Best Leaders” according to US News and World Report (2006) — explain to Charlie Rose why “educational inequity is our nation’s greatest [...]
Steven Curtis Chapman: On tragedy and God’s love for orphans
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Steven Curtis Chapman, who lost an adopted daughter in a tragic car accident this spring, offers compelling commentary about both tragedy and adoption on CNN today.
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In America alone, there are half a million children in foster care, and approximately 120,000 of these children are waiting to be adopted. In many countries, children are too often [...]
Monday Morning MP3 (Tuesday Edition)
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Empowering Students to be Justice Workers
Jeremy Del Rio at the Street Schools Network Annual Conference (8/1/08). Explore how Daniel internalized a prophet’s call for justice.
Courtesy: National Association of Street Schools
Cornell West on Music and Justice (& Child Sex Trafficking)
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008“Music is about helping folk, but it helps them by getting them to dance. Getting them to move. Getting them to think. Getting them to reflect. Getting them to be themselves, to somehow break out of the conventional self that they are. …
We love those folk who are enslaved in [...]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, June 30th, 2008Deep Justice in a Broken World
A panel discussion at Urban Youth Workers Institute 2008 about righting the wrongs around us features Deep Justice in a Broken World book contributors Kara Powell (Fuller Seminary), Noel Castellanos (CCDA), Lina Thompson (World Vision) and yours truly.
Courtesy: UYWI
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Jesus Justice: So Easy A Five Year Old Can Do It?
Jeremy Del Rio, UYWI 2008
Jesus the Justice Advocate may not be standard Sunday school fare, yet He began his ministry by declaring his heart for justice in a concrete mission statement to preach good news to the poor. He loves justice so much that he [...]
Guest Blogger: Crissy Brooks on Faith for Justice
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Crissy Brooks co-founded and directs Mika CDC in Costa Mesa, California and is a friend and colleague through both Urban Youth Workers Institute and Christian Community Development Association. She recently began blogging “A View from the Mesa” here.
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“And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day [...]
Live from UYWI08: Jesus Justice
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Downloads
+ PowerPoint here
+ “Jesus Justice” article (Youth Workers Journal, 2007)
+ Audio coming soon.
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008From Little Things Big Things Grow
If you thought socially conscious music in the mainstream was a thing of the past, turn your ears to what Australia is listening to. A song about justice and reconciliation in Australia was the highest new entry in the charts two weeks ago - starting out at #2 on the [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008The Cost of the Kingdom
For those who believe the Kingdom of God is an appropriate “Framing Story” for remedying global crises.
From UYWI 2006. Join me at UYWI 2008 next week.
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