know justice, be justice: Brian McLaren

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Envision the Future: A Declaration for the Common Good

Envision...Part III of ???

Last week I had the opportunity to help out with Envision '08, a gathering diverse Christ followers (racially, geographically, educationally, theologically) for 3 days of dreaming about how to live out the call God has placed on our lives to be his justice-bearers in the world. Here's the document that was settled upon on our final day...

Envision the Future: A Declaration on the Common Good

I still have more thoughts from the time to process, but I'm the midst of a service trip in North Carolina, so it'll have to wait. I might have some time tomorrow...

Quotes

"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."
-Thomas Jefferson-

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-Martin Luther King Jr.-

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-Dom Helder Camara-

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."
-Aristotle-

"To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
-Plato-

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
-Elie Wiesel-

thought-provoking videos

World On Fire: Sarah McLachlan rethinks music videos for these enjoyable few minutes.

Trade Trailer: Trailer for the movie starring Kevin Kline released September '07 that takes a closer look at human trafficking.

Rich Young Ruler: Derek Webb's prophetic call with a user-created video. provocative and thoughtful.

Miniature Earth: Sometimes numbers are too big to comprehend. The Miniature Earth stems from the book "If The World Were A Vllage", breaking down global issues into understandable proportions.

Charitable Organizations

igive.com: Choose your own charity to receive a percentage of money you spend while shopping online. Over 670 online stores participating.

TOMS Shoes: Buy a pair of shoes and at the same time provide a pair of shoes for a less fortunate child.

(RED): Join (RED) by buying really expensive clothes. But at least a portion of the profits go to AIDS organizations. And it's a trendy cause: Bono's involved.

Google.org : The philanthropic arm of google.com. Engaged in 3 primary issues: global health, poverty, and climate change.

Kiva: Loans that change lives: An inspiring website that allows the average individual participate in micro-lending programs through personally loaning an entrepreneur start-up capital for a business project.

Communities Who Practice Justice

The Simple Way: A group of people including author/speaker Shane Claiborne who live in inner-city Philadelphia, practicing urban renewal and justice based community.

World Relief: The organization that we're partnering with at The Chapel to connect with people in Chaimite and Koca Misava, Mozambique. The facilitate church/village partnerships around the world with their holistic H.E.A.R.T. model.

Global Exchange: International human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Great hub of information.

Global Freeloaders: Travel the world in a sustainable, community-based way. Global Freeloaders lets you connect and stay with real people in other countries for free while traveling.

International Justice Mission: IJM, founded just a few years ago in 1997 by Gary Haugen, is a group of human rights professionals, lawyers and public officials working within the established governmental systems to bring justice, freeing slaves and standing in the gap when victims are left without an advocate.

The Center for Public Justice: The Center for Public Justice works to research, encourage public policy, and equip society for advocacy around justice issues.

HIV/AIDS

chapelaids.org: A World AIDS Day website created for The Chapel in 2007. Has a lot of up-to-date information that's helpful any time during the year.

The Biology of AIDS: A step-by-step breakdown of the AIDS virus created by the BBC. Easy to understand and informative.

The Age of AIDS: The most complete AIDS resource I know of online. Created as a complmentary resource to PBS's documentary of the same title, you can now view the entire documentary online, as well as access the many other resources.

UNGASS: Created in response to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001, this site is one of the UN's main portals for general information related to AIDS.

AIDS Clock and Map: An interactive map and up-to-date clock showing the number of HIV infections.

know justice, be justice

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Envision the Future: A Declaration for the Common Good

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thought-provoking videos

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Communities Who Practice Justice

HIV/AIDS