The Just Church
Here is Jim Martin, head of Church Engagement for International Justice Mission (IJM), on his recent book, The Just Church. Jim Martin :: The Just Church from Tyndale House Publishers on Youtube.
Clunie House
I had the privilege of guest lecturing this morning for a Westmont College May Term class at their urban campus called “The Clunie House,” a restored Victorian Mansion in Downtown San Francisco. Twenty amazing students doing a one month intensive before heading to Cambodia and Thailand. Also good to catch up with my friend Rachel
Are we talking too fast?
(Originally published on the Huffington Post.) As of late, I’ve become aware of a growing tragedy: the tragedy of fast-moving conversations. Just think of the speed and shallowness of modern communication. Recent studies showed that the average attention span at present is just five minutes long — 10 years ago, it was 12 minutes. Additionally,
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Justice and Humility
Justice is very fashionable in our society – a buzzword for both secular and church culture. When we talk about justice, our focus can often be exclusively on action. Justice becomes about doing stuff, fixing problems and taking a stand. A word that can lead us to a “checkbox” approach to the just life the
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Praise Her at the Gates
Maybe this is controversial, but we need to make sure we’re talking sense and using biblical logic when we talk about women. Here is the message, “Praise Her at the Gates,” from Antioch’s Proverbs Sermon Series. The title is taken from the last chapter of Proverbs and the exhortation to praise noble women at the
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Small Group E-Blast
Below is an e-blast that went out today for Pursuing Justice. I can’t say how much I’ve appreciated artistic, administrative and technological friends who have lent time and energy to help promote the book. Promoting the book myself has been one of the most awkward things in my life. Promoting it with a group of
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Feeling lost in today’s world?
Guest Blog by Keith Wright A funny thing happened when I went to help change the conditions of the poor in Africa. I was changed. Twenty years ago, I moved to post-war Uganda to do my part to help. What I came to realize was: God’s call for me to meet the needs of the
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Why the Metric of Love is Sacrifice
Outreach Magazine just posted an excerpt from Pursuing Justice on the nature of love and sacrifice. Click the screenshot below to check it out!
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Pastors and Books
What does it look like when you offer a free copy of Pursuing Justice to hundreds of pastors and church leaders agreeing to read it? [Thanks Thomas Nelson Publishers for supplying books for and investing in pastors]
Can We Really Change the World?
[This piece first appeared on ChurchLeaders.com] In Pursuing Justice, I write about the motto of Kilns College: Learn to Change the World. A friend recently admitted that he was skeptical of my claim. He wondered if, at the end of the day, it’s possible to actually change the world. Doesn’t history show that injustice and
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