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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Jesus 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, freedom for prisoners, sight for the blind, release for the oppressed, and the year of the Lord’s favor. (Lk 4:18-18) Jesus [...]
I hate to sound like a groupie
Monday, November 5th, 2007BUT Bono is a brilliant communicator. (DUH!) Fascinating interview in Rolling Stone, where he says, among other things, this about America’s role in the world. I’m arguing for a demonstration to the world of what we’re capable of in the West, with our technology, our innovations, our agriculture, our pharmacology. We’ve developed this unimaginable prosperity. [...]
Send the One Campaign over the top
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007* As of 5:45 this afternoon, the One campaign had achieved 94% of its goal of 40,000 signers to the following letter in support of the proposed Jubilee Act: As a constituent and a member of the ONE Campaign, I write to ask you to co-sponsor the Jubilee Act. Your support would greatly enhance our [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Rich Mullins 4 weeks before he passed. All the popular evangelical preachers … they’re not bad. They’re just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Help Us Have Mercy Music by Charlie Hall
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, August 6th, 2007Becoming a Peculiar People Shane Claiborne, CCDA 2006 If we are crazy it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way the world has gone crazy. This workshop will explore Christianity as a peculiar way of living, looking to the early Christians for wisdom, and to the prophetic imagination of contemporary urban [...]
Speaking of stories, this one will change your life
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Three white kids from San Diego — college students and aspiring film makers — travel to Africa in search of a story. What they find changes them forever, and the story they tell becomes a movement that inspires young people nationwide to love mercy and do justice. I’ve mentioned Invisible Children before, and even embraced [...]
UrbanMinistry.org Top Ten Tips
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007UrbanMinistry.org is the fastest growing collection of urban ministry resources anywhere online. Even better, they’re all free. From audio and video of some of Christendom’s greatest teachers, thinkers, and practitioners to articles and blogs and Wikis and social networking and more, the Techmission team are at the cutting edge of building the go-to urban ministry [...]
Toward Deeper Justice for All: The Urban Social Justice Report
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007The Justice For All project I reported on in May gets prominent discussion in Fuller Seminary’s Center For Youth and Family Ministries’ July E-Journal. Kara Powell, who helped craft the research for the project, describes its goal as, “eliminat[ing] the murkiness swirling around what social justice is, what it isn’t, and how to bring the [...]
Justice Thought of the Day
Friday, July 13th, 2007Via Matt: “‘Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’” – Deuteronomy 27:19
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