“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2) There...
I have a prayer. The most intense week of my life started when I entered a classroom for a one week course. The course was named “Exploring Indigenous Justice and Healing”, taught by Rupert Ross and...
So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his. (Hebrews 4:9-10) It's Wednesday. Which is not our Sabbath...
Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. (Proverbs 31:9) In the month of April 2013, the community of Kijabe, Kenya received rainfall levels equal to their total average...
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” (Amos 5:24) God requires justice from his people – and not just a little drip of it here and there, but a rushing...
These are the questions that we will explore with our Lenten series Ash and Oil: Remembering we are Dust, Leaning toward a New Creation. We invite you to join us by signing up here to receive devotions in your inbox three times a week, or simply by checking back for new posts on the Do Justice blog every other weekday throughout Lent.
Do you have plans for how to stay alert to injustice in 2015? Or are you in danger of becoming apathetic? A few years ago, a Fulani village in Mali was ignored in a proposal for a region-wide...
"It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change. So we must stand up for what we believe in.” Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement...
I’m no art critic, much less a patron of the arts, but on the principle that even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut, I managed to stumble across Jungen’s striking work.
While I was a student at Calvin College, one of the things I both enjoyed and struggled with was learning about different issues that related to international development. I loved being exposed to and...
Every few months a new report shows that the effects of climate change are becoming increasingly irreversible. Clearly United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon understands the gravity of the climate situation when he noted that, “we know that we are not on track, and time is not on our side.”
