Dark Soil: Ending the Land Application of Biosolids In America
I came home the other night to the thick stench of biosolids (treated sewage sludge) on the wind. The trucks had been driving past our cabin for days…While you may have never heard of biosolids the battle to stop it’s application on agricultural and public lands has been raging for many years…
Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel (video)
Let Claudio inspire you as well -as you conspire ways to “do small things with great love” in your neighborhood that model and embody GOD’s redemption and reconciliation…
Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)
Born in 1924, in southern Mississippi, Campbell came of age in one of the most racially divided parts of the most racially divided state in the Union…Campbell is an ordained Southern Baptist minister but, like most iconoclasts and prophets, no institution could find a good use for him, nor could he for them…
Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)
Why are the local churches in America the last place to see racial reconciliation- even in 2011? Author, farmer, activist and “renegade Baptist preacher” Will Campbell talks candidly about racism and the church (a clip from EthicsDaily’s DVD ‘Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism‘).
Empire vs. Love
In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”
Following Jesus: Befriending The Poor
As I have walked for the past eighteen years alongside thousands of men and women who have become homeless…and as I have visited impoverished communities throughout the world, I have discovered…We actually can…find sustainable, manageable ways to make a difference in the lives of the poor…
Everyday Justice [Book Review]
“Acting justly everyday means developing awareness about the problems in the world; it means changing how we shop, how we dress and how we drive; it means starting to see our each and every action as an ethical choice…”
Everday Justice: Interview with Julie Clawson
I realized that I couldn’t claim to follow Jesus and believe in the Bible unless I integrated justice into my Christian faith. So over the course of the last decade, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means to worship a God who tells us that true worship involves feeding the hungry and releasing the oppressed.
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