Here’s the video Micah, Jerod and Eli shot at the Elmina Castle in Cape Coast, Ghana when we were there last November.
This video was shown at the 2012 conference in Philly and released on the DVD that World Relief sponsored for Micah, which also released at The Justice Conference.
Pretty powerful stuff… check it out!
Thank God For Evolution from The Justice Conference on Vimeo.
“The overarching concern in the idea of justice is the need to have just relations with others—and even to have appropriate sentiments about others; and what motivates the search is the diagnosis of injustice in ongoing arrangements.”
Sen, Amartya. “The Boundaries of Justice: David Hume and our World,” The New Republic, December 14, 2011, Books and Arts Section, online edition.
I had lunch with Tom Rowley, the US Director for the environmental group A Rocha, yesterday.
In follow up, he sent me this paragraph… I love it!
You asked me yesterday how to move people toward reframing quality of life from consumption toward shalom. Thinking a bit more about it, I realize I gave only a partial answer (not that I have a full answer): relationship. Another piece of the puzzle is, I think, learning. Here’s the logic behind that: we take care of that which we love; we love that which we know; and we know that which we learn. And the best way to learn is in relationship–whether it be relationship to a text, a person, a place, etc.. It’s the relationship (the experience) that moves knowledge from head to heart, and it’s the heart that leads to change.
For what it’s worth….
(A Rocha is engaged in Christian Conservation ministry in almost 20 countries worldwide – check out their work by clicking on the image below)
Idelette McVicker, a writer and non-profit manager of SheLovesMagazine.com, wrote this short little piece based on a few parts of my talk at this year’s Justice Conference in Portland.
Click on the screenshot below and check it out!
A year ago, after the first Justice Conference, I asked Grace Laxson to write a song that she could sing after the opening talk at this year’s conference.
I asked her to work with the theme of Giving Your Life Away.
Here’s a reprisal from two weeks back at Antioch of her performance at the conference with the song she wrote called, “Give it all.”
Grace Laxson :: Give It All from Antioch Church on Vimeo.