Originally posted on Mill Pond Porch:
We’ve been taking on a couple of prevalent ideas about disability: first, that it’s a problem that involves certain individuals’ brains and/or bodies and secondly, that “we’re all disabled” in one form or another. Yes, everyone is different. And no one is able to be or do everything they…
Tag: justice
Looking for Loopholes | Thinking About Justice 5
Today’s “theological liberalism” doesn’t oppose conservatism. It opposes JUSTICE.
What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Thinking about Justice, Part 4
Honoring the dignity of your neighbor expresses love for him. Rightly esteeming the worth of your neighbor is justice.
Redemption and Disturbing Mission | Thinking about Justice, Part 3
Worshipping God while remaining complicit in a system that, by its very nature, devalues God’s image bearers, makes him into a ‘tribal deity.’
But I didn’t do anything! | Thinking about Justice, Part 2
The integrity of the Gospel through which we have been saved places us in dynamic relationship to the triune God and His body, making us complicit with Him as we follow Him into the world.
What’s It (or He or She) Worth? Thinking about Justice, Part 1
Satan has claimed and is claiming the minds, the bodies the souls of millions of God’s image bearers. He slaps labels on them, labels that he feels devalue them, that enable him to score them on the cheap, to say “They are mine, Game Over,” drop them into his sack and head off looking for more.
The Roma, the Chinese, Mission and Me – Part Three – Owning and paying our OWN “gospel debt”
In the last post in this series, we were thinking about the deep feeling expressed by several Chinese believers that they “owed a gospel debt” to the Roma of Europe. Letting that concept percolate, we can think of at least two reasons why we who are Christians of European extraction, who have been involved in…
Official Corruption and Human Trafficking: Power perverting justice to victimize those God loves
A summary of instances of official corruption from the annual Trafficking in Persons report should lead us to weep, pray and GET BUSY!
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