Economic Justice

BeadforLife has helped roll hundreds of Ugandan families out of poverty by training HIV-positive women and refugees in the art of bead rolling.

Julie Polter 4-01-2007
Individual efforts and social responsibility go hand-in-hand.
Aseem Shrivastava 2-01-2007
How do we ignore the poor? Let me count the ways.
Tamara Draut 2-01-2007

Collaboration between low- and middle-income people is one of the keys to rebuilding the broken American Dream.

Dr. Paul Sherry 2-01-2007

A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

Julie Polter 1-01-2007

How to defend the family more.

Robert M. Franklin 1-01-2007

If preachers are preoccupied with pursuing the life of conscpicuous consumption and preaching a "prosperity gospel," then poor people are in big trouble.

Jim Wallis 12-01-2006
Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor.
Meg E. Cox 12-01-2006

John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empowerment.

Robert Roth 9-01-2006
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September.
David Black 9-01-2006

What do the words and witness of Jesus demand of a college that calls itself Christian?

A Catholic university strives to make hunger for justice part of the curriculum.

Amy McDougall 9-01-2006

Gay rights activists seek - and find - dialogue on (some) Christian campuses.

Beginning with churches near the coalfields, more than 750 local and national religious leaders have put forth “A Call for Justice at Peabody Energy” that backs miners seeking to organi

Robert Roth 9-01-2006
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for October.
Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
David Batstone 9-01-2006
This generation does not fear the sacred nor bow to the secular.
Ten years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, economic injustice, HIV/AIDS, and poverty stand in the way of real reconciliation - and present daunting challenges for the South African church.
Ivy George 6-01-2006
The First World becomes a one-way destination point for children from the global South.

Complete with play money, appliance cards, and transportation passes, the Community Action Poverty Simulation is much like a role play or board game.