Over the past few years, I’ve been on an exploration, probing the intersection between the impact of my everyday decisions such as what or how much I consume, and what it means to follow a God who loves all people with a holistic, radical and sacrificial love.
Read MoreOver the past few years, I’ve been on an exploration, probing the intersection between the impact of my everyday decisions such as what or how much I consume, and what it means to follow a God who loves all people with a holistic, radical and sacrificial love.
Read MoreIsaiah’s main message is that the community should mirror the holiness of God. Yet, what does it mean for God to be ‘holy’? Usually definitions include either moral purity, or a sense of transcendence and separateness, or both. God’s requirement of holiness for the community includes cultivating their moral and ethical life. For Isaiah, holiness is practically expressed through ethical lifestyles and justice for the whole community.
Read MoreHere, God invites us to a life which serves the other. And what it suggests to me, is that we are ‘wired up’ for good, we are designed to do the ‘right’ things.
This happens in the same way that the human body is designed to feel better and function better after exercise, when it comes alive and healthy.
Read MoreIt is almost a truism that the Gospel of Luke is a gospel which challenges our perceptions of social justice. Consistently throughout the gospel, we see Jesus acting to confront inequality and injustices, often also offering a critique of the systems which facilitate these issues. Jesus constantly transgresses boundaries; he touches unclean people, speaks with slaves, and eats with the wicked, in doing so exposing the deep-rooted prejudices inherent to his 1st century context, and challenging his followers to change their mindset.
Read MorePhillip might have been a somebody, but out here, he is not. He’s a lone wanderer on a road to somewhere unknown. He encounters someone who’s social, ethnic, economic and sexual identity is ‘other’. Again Phillip hears from God, this time the Holy Spirit according to scripture. Beckoning him to draw near to this ‘other’, and to stay.
Read MoreI saw God as concerned with personal salvation, but not overly bothered about issues of injustice and suffering, and I was struggling with this.
Read MoreThat’s what Christian faith is about - it remembers those the powerful may forget.
It remembers those nations with fragile health systems and asks, ‘what can we do?’, ‘how can we keep them in our hearts?’.
We pray and believe that this campaign will be small step towards remembering them at this time.
Read MoreIt’s hard for me to read Christian books on social justice. I love the content and the biblical accuracy of what they present, but I’ve consistently found myself struggling with guilt, compassion fatigue, and despair…
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