Every year as I reflect back on the past year and work on plans for the upcoming year, I remember the dream I wrote for Antioch in the Summer of 2006. God has done amazing things in 2013 and I’m looking forward to 2014. —————————————————————— OUR DREAM :: THE VISION THAT DRIVES US It is the […]
Mae Elise Cannon serves as the Senior Director of Advocacy & Outreach – Middle East for World Vision USA. She is a minister, writer, and academic who cares deeply about God’s heart for the poor and the oppressed. She is the author of Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World and Just Spirituality: How
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein
[Partially adapted from Chapter 10 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] I have a friend in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has spent the last decade and a half helping some of the world’s most vulnerable people. He was born and raised in what is one of
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I was in Australia meeting with several Evangelical leaders in areas of justice a couple weeks back talking about The Justice Conference when someone asked me what my heart was in founding the conference. I wrestled for a way to sum up a lot of the thoughts, feelings and intentions and answered by saying, “The goal is
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Guest Post by Stephan Bauman The night was anything but silent. “In the days of Herod…” So begins the story of Jesus according to Luke. Herod became King of Judea through a massacre. During his reign, He murdered his wife and his wife’s mother. He slaughtered infants in Bethlehem. At his death, He decrees a hippodrome full
Guest Post by Emily Hill I recently quit my career in market research to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Justice at Kilns College. I had been involved with justice issues and I considered myself a fairly socially aware person, but I wanted to learn more; I wanted to do more. In just a
Guest Post by Justin Kron Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter… (John 10:22). To most followers of Jesus who read their Bibles, it is very easy to miss the importance of what the gospel writer, John, just shared and move on to the rest of the story. But I’ve learned to
I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I think gratitude – thankfulness, appreciation, value – has a very underrated foundational role in virtue and vice. Legalism, the kind of self-righteous Christianity that is all about control, guilt, power, pride and perfection, really has beneath it a sick and hollowed out sense of gratitude. Grace begets
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Association for a More Just Society (AJS) is a Christian organization that, as a result of its fearless efforts to stand up for victims of violence, labor- and land-rights abuses, and government corruption in Honduras, is increasingly being recognized – both by Christian groups and secular agencies such as Transparency International and the United Nations—as
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