Oct '03 issue --- The Church and Social Justice...
In my mind, the typical evangelical or social approaches to the Gospel are no longer an option. We need to think through these concerns in a manner that will hopefully lead us to a more holistic view of the Gospel.
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The Wealth of Koinonia
by Trey Sklar
With our wealthy ability to drive to church, drive to visit our friends, and drive to everything, we have become more connected and yet more disconnected than ever before … and because our interaction is so segmented, we end up with nearly total control over what others know of us.
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My Roots, Where the Axe Lies, Untouched
by Ken Oster
What about love? Isn't love supposed to "cast out fear," having "no fear in" it? That's strong language for a word so watered down in our day. Specifically, what kind of love does this? What does it say? Perfect love? What is that?
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Borderlines
by Lacie Watkins-Bush
As North Americans, we have a simple way to define wealth and poverty — wealth is what we are taught to aspire to, and poverty is what we work hard to avoid.
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Confessions of a Guilty Bystander
by Joel McClure
But there is a major problem that I have with the poor, hurting, and hungry people: “they” are “them” and “those people.”
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A Life Seeking Justice: interview w/ Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
by John Wallis
"America's problem is its desire to right what is wrong. Not that it is wrong to seek social justice but we as a country have chosen expediency over rightness."
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Just Relationships
by Bill Raymond
I believe that God is intimately concerned with what we call social justice in this world. God wants us to love Him and to love our neighbors and He is concerned for the welfare of people...
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Breaking The Fence
by Andrew Smith
I stood mesmerised. A thin shaft of light peered through the trees and dared to cast my shadow before me. I saw in it a spoiled and selfish white child, complaining about gravy and doughnuts. Slowly my short, chubby hand is reaching through the fence, and discovering a hidden world.
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The Power of One
by Steve Higgs
Jesus came and ignored these separations and called all men to himself. He spent time with the tax collector and beggar, the physically afflicted and those that were healthy, the prostitute and centurion. Jesus showed no favoritism and he calls us to follow His example.
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Feeding The Hungry
by Charlie Wear
I am not sure that feeding the hungry those few years was for the benefit of the hungry. I am convinced that our efforts were for our benefit. To give us a chance to see God bless people in a very tangible way.
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Book Review: After Christendom?
When it comes to justice, many Christians – on both sides of the political spectrum, "right" and "left" – have fallen for the Machiavellian lie that "the ends justify the means."
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Patientia...
C. Christopher Smith adapts a chapter from his forthcoming book, Water, Faith and Wood: Stories of the Early Church's Witness For Today, in this month's issue.
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Film Review: Bonhoeffer
How does one reconcile a pacifist theology within a socio-political context of hatred, genocide, and spiritual bankruptcy? ... His answer led him to participate in a failed plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler, and ultimately to his own death after the conspiracy was discovered.
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Sacred Music No One Can Hear
Listen to what passes for sacred music in a Christian bookstore these days, and what you will find is artists who often ignore the hard-to-hear first half of the Gospel and instead head straightaway to the easy to swallow second half.
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