Photo Credit: Beans on Broad Guest Post by Tabitha Sikich Book Review of A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot We live in a world full of words. It seems just about everyone is talking. About everything. And all this talk centers upon what people know, or think that they know — ideas, […]
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[Partially adapted from Chapter 8 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] One of the most eye-opening moments in my life happened in an unlikely place: sharing time at my daughter’s school. It seemed innocent enough, but the experience there would shake me to the core. I had just picked
Guest Post by Melissa McCreery Bullying has come to be an all-to-common word in our vocabulary. Lately, it seems that it’s pervaded every facet of society. Bullying in K-12 schools (30 percent of kids ages 12-18 say they’re bullied at school), bullying at the collegiate level (a study by Leah Hollis found that bullying exists
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To believe in future rewards is to believe that the long arm of the Lord bends toward justice. – Philip Yancey
I recently sat in Tel Aviv and listened to a discussion by a Jewish woman and Palestinian man on the topic of peace and reconciliation. What made this talk different from other peace-making conversations I had heard was that both had lost a child in the violence between Arabs and Jews. One lost a son
Dr. Brian Fikkert is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development, a research and training center that is dedicated to helping churches and missionaries to declare the kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor. Brian also serves as a Professor of Economics and Community
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[Adapted from Chapter 12 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] In Matthew 7:12 Jesus says, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” We know it as the golden rule. American culture, however, has twisted
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Shane Claiborne is an author and the visionary leader of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. His adventures have taken him from the streets of Calcutta where he worked with Mother Teresa, to the suburbs of Chicago where he
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If you really wanted to badly enough, you could be eating dinner in Paris by midnight. Or you could be standing on top of the Empire State Building, or even walking on the Great Wall of China. We live in an age of unbounded possibilities. The sky is the limit, and we are consumed with
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This past Saturday it was my pleasure to speak at the Free Austin Summit hosted by Allies Against Slavery. I was tasked with presenting the philosophical and theological groundwork for justice for those in attendance. Justice is for the long haul. A specific cause can’t be a cut flower—something attractive but lacking deep roots—nor just another
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