Tom N.T. Wright is one of today’s best known and respected New Testament scholars. Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1981 he was Fellow and Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge, and then […]
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Bruce Strom loves God and his neighbor. He doesn’t just say it – he lives it. Bruce had a successful career as the senior partner of a multi-office law practice. But God called him to leave that practice, sell all he had, and give to the poor. The story of God’s call and Bruce’s response
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The Reverend Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest serving as Chaplain at St Augustine’s at Vanderbilt University, and founder of Thistle Farms & Magdalene. Thistle Farms employs 40 residents and graduates of Magdalene, and houses a natural body care line, a paper and sewing studio and the Thistle Stop Café. Magdalene is the two-year residential
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I am often asked who has had the greatest theological influence on me. As far as my Theology of Justice, it’s pretty easy. No modern thinker has had a greater impact on the foundations of my thinking in justice, shalom and the beauty of God than Nicholas Wolterstorff. He is one of America’s preeminent Christian
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Jim Martin is the Vice President of Spiritual Formation for International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. His recent book, The Just Church, is a practical guide for churches to engage in life-giving justice ministry. KW: What led you to
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A Definition for Justice in Society Bring up the question of social justice and you will get varied and often heated responses. There is tension around the term because of the history of theology and practice. It has been hotly debated, written about critically by scholars such as Friedrich Hayak and is often confused to
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Since 1975, when Lynne & Bill Hybels started Willow Creek Community Church, Lynne has been an active volunteer at the church. For the last fifteen years she has engaged in ministry partnerships in under-resourced communities in Latin America and Africa. More recently she has been involved in Willow’s Spanish-speaking congregation, Casa de Luz, and actively supports Comprehensive
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[Adapted in part from Chapter 5 of Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] What do we mean when we talk about love? A great deal of our understanding of love comes from media— movies, songs, television shows, and so on—and from nearly every popular representation of love we can generalize
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I’m excited to let you all know about a great new resource that has just been released! It’s a four-week study guide to accompany Pursuing Justice. Pursuing Justice is intended to start a conversation on the integral nature and relational necessity of God’s mandate for justice in the Christian faith. This four-week study continues this
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I was looking over the study guide for Chapter 14 of Pursuing Justice and loved it. Maybe you’ll be as convicted as I was?! (You can view the rest of the study guides in their PDF form by clicking here.) ********************** Chapter 14 Rediscovering Worship: The Role of Justice in the Pursuit of God. The
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