Download or read book We Cry Justice written by Liz Theoharis and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted. Enter the Poor People's Campaign, a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism. In We Cry Justice, Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the campaign, is joined by pastors, community organizers, scholars, low-wage workers, lay leaders, and people in poverty to interpret sacred stories about the poor seeking healing, equity, and freedom. In a world roiled by poverty and injustice, Scripture still speaks. Organized into fifty-two chapters, each focusing on a key Scripture passage, We Cry Justice offers comfort and challenge from the many stories of the poor taking action together. Read anew the story of the exodus that frees people from debt and slavery, the prophets who denounce the rich and ruling classes, the stories of Jesus's healing and parables about fair wages, and the early church's sharing of goods. Reflection questions and a short prayer at the end of each chapter offer the opportunity to use the book devotionally through a year. The Bible cries for justice, and we do too. It's time to act on God's persistent call to repair the breach and fight poverty, not the poor.
Download or read book The Poverty Justice Bible written by American Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your guide to explore God's messages and challenges regarding the poor. Backed by social justice campaigners including World Vision and other leading organizations. Includes 1) Clear CEV text 2) Highlighted verses to clarify your understanding of God's passion for social justice 3) A unique 52-page study guide to support your individual research and group discussion 4) Practical suggestions on how you can make a difference in the lives of the poor and the oppressed.
Download or read book The Poverty and Justice Bible written by American Bible Society and published by Gallery at the American Bible Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poverty and Justice Bible is your guide to explore God's messages and challenges. Its power will drive your passion to shout for justice for the poor. It includes 1) Clear and accessible CEV text that helps you get straight to the heart of the message 2) Highlighted verses to clarify your understanding of God's passion for social justice 3)A unique 32-page study guide to support your individual research and group discussion 4) Practical suggestions on how you can make a difference in the lives of the poor and the oppressed 5)The backing of social justice campaigners including World Vision and other leading organizations. 8 2/3 x 6 5/16 inches.
Download or read book Poverty Justice Bible NRSV Catholic written by United Bible Societies and published by United Bible Societies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting more than 3,600 verses that wake us up to issues of poverty and justice. The Poverty and Justice Bible is your guide to explore Gods messages and challenges regarding the poor. Backed by social justice campaigners including World Vision and other leading organizations, The Poverty and Justice Bible gives you: Clear and accessible NRSV text Highlighted verses to clarify your understanding of Gods passion for social justice. A unique 56-page study guide to support your individual research and group discussion. Practical suggestions on how you can make a difference in the lives of the poor and the oppressed. Paperback.1,635 pages. 5 x 8 1/4."
Download or read book Cry Justice written by Ronald J. Sider and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of Biblical quotations on: Salvation, service and ultimate shalom ; God's special concern for the poor, Economic relationships among the people of God ; Property and possessions; God's concern for justice.
Download or read book Make Poverty Personal mersion Emergent Village resources for communities of faith written by Ash Barker and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. But poverty is not new. And neither is God's deep concern for the poor--it is a theme deeply woven throughout the Bible. Yet sadly, churches and individual Christians have too often been blind to this emphasis, or they have been paralyzed into inaction by feelings of helplessness. In this urgent, provocative book, Ash Barker offers both challenge and hope. Pulling out and reflecting on significant passages from both testaments, he reveals what the Bible says about both the nature of poverty and about how God calls his people to respond. These studies, ideal for either individual or small group use, are interlaced with personal reflections--first-hand accounts from fifteen years of ministry among the poor.
Download or read book Poverty Justice Bible NRSV Catholic written by United Bible Societies and published by United Bible Societies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting more than 3,600 verses that wake us up to issues of poverty and justice. The Poverty and Justice Bible is your guide to explore Gods messages and challenges regarding the poor. Backed by social justice campaigners including World Vision and other leading organizations, The Poverty and Justice Bible gives you: Clear and accessible NRSV text Highlighted verses to clarify your understanding of Gods passion for social justice. A unique 56-page study guide to support your individual research and group discussion. Practical suggestions on how you can make a difference in the lives of the poor and the oppressed. Paperback.1,635 pages. 5 x 8 1/4."
Download or read book There Shall be No Poor Among You written by Leslie J. Hoppe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There Shall Be No Poor Among You is a careful and comprehensive but not overly technical study of the biblical portrait of the poor and poverty. Hoppe introduces the study with the socioeconomic structures of ancient Israel and Roman Palestine, then proceeds systematically to examine the biblical evidence, including that of the Old Testament, New Testament, Apocrypha, and rabbinic literature. The Bible describes the poor and poverty in a variety of ways. Sometimes poverty is a curse; other times it is a blessing. Sometimes the text is concerned about material poverty exclusively; other times poverty becomes a metaphor for another reality. Hoppe describes the various ways the Bible deals with the poor, but his fundamental conclusion is that the Bible never idealizes the reality of material poverty and the oppression of the poor by the rich. Even when the Bible speaks of "poverty of the spirit" as a positive religious metaphor, God requires humans to seek social justice. Hoppe suggests that just as poverty is not idealized in the Bible, so the poor should be a priority of every community of faith. Ancient Israel, early Judaism, Jesus, and the first Christians did not forget the poor, and if believers today wish to be faithful to their biblical heritage, neither can they. This book provides a practical background for scholars and is a primer for a significant theological motif. It will be useful in the classroom (in college and seminary courses in biblical ethics and social justice), as well as in serious Bible study. Study questions will help readers and students further probe history, theology, and application.
Download or read book Poverty the Bible and Africa written by Isaac Boaheng and published by HippoBooks. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty reduction is a worldwide concern, yet if the church is to play an effective role in its alleviation, an approach that is both biblical and contextual is required. In Poverty, the Bible, and Africa, Isaac Boaheng formulates a theology of poverty that engages Scripture, African traditional wisdom, and contemporary African concerns to create a paradigm for understanding and alleviating poverty in Africa. Boaheng highlights that, whatever our cultural context, God frowns upon materialism, extravagance, and love for riches; yet the author also demonstrates why a contextual theology must address people’s societal and cultural needs alongside spiritual ones. If we desire a model for poverty reduction that is both theologically sound and contextually appropriate, we must facilitate an encounter between the teachings of Scripture and the socio-economic, political, and religious realities of a particular context. Combining in-depth cultural analysis with careful exegetical reflection, this book offers refreshing insight into the challenge of confronting poverty in Africa. Boaheng’s approach, however, is relevant far beyond the continent and is transferable to any context where others are seeking to effectively understand and combat poverty.
Download or read book Always with Us written by Theoharis, Liz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesus's words 'the poor you will always have with you' (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible. In this book Liz Theoharis critically examines both the biblical text and the lived reality of the poor to show how this passage is taken out of context and distorted. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin, and all Christians have a responsibility to partner with the poor to end poverty once and for all"--Jacket
Download or read book The Discourse of Wealth And Poverty in the Book of Proverbs written by Timothy J. Sandoval and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Discourse of Wealth and Poverty in the Book of Proverbs" includes a discussion of "proverbs and metaphor," reviews previous studies of wealth and poverty in Proverbs, offers in-depth analyses of particular passages in Proverbs, and suggests a possible social-historical setting for the book.
Download or read book The Bible and Social Justice written by Cynthia Long Westfall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the cry for justice in human society is an important theme in the Bible, in many church and academic circles action for and discourse about social justice is carried on without a thorough exploration of this theme in Scripture. This volume brings together chapters by experts in the various sections of the Old and New Testaments to give a full spectrum of what the Bible has to say about social justice, and to point to ways forward for Christians seeking to think and act in harmony with God in pursuing social justice in the world today.
Download or read book Just Generosity written by Ronald J. Sider and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendency to overlook those among us who suffer while we live in practical opulence. This holistic approach to helping the poor goes far beyond donating clothes or money, envisioning a world in which faith-based groups work with businesses, the media, and the government to help end poverty in the world's richest nation. This updated edition includes current statistics, policy recommendations, and discussions covering everything from welfare reform, changes to Medicade, and the Social Security debate. "Sider's most important book since Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger."--Jim Wallis, author, God's Politics "Sider knows how to lift up people in need.... [An] important and challenging book."--John Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States
Download or read book Generous Justice written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.
Download or read book We Cry Justice written by Liz Theoharis and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We Cry Justice, leaders of the Poor People's Campaign-a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism-uncover what the Bible really says about justice and poverty. Liz Theoharis is joined by pastors, organizers, scholars, low-wage workers, and people in poverty in interpreting sacred stories about the poor seeking healing, justice, and freedom. Find in the pages of Scripture God's persistent call to repair the breach and fight poverty, not the poor. Book jacket.
Download or read book Justice for the Poor written by Jim Wallis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this six-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Jim Wallis and Sojourners teaches you to connect biblical faith with contemporary responses to poverty, both in your neighborhood and around the world. According to Wallis, "When the wealthy are dying from diseases of overabundance and the poor are dying from inadequate health care, poor diets, and stress-related illnesses, there is spiritual disease in society." Justice for the Poor recaptures the biblical vision that links poverty with justice. Jesus' life and teaching shows a deep compassion toward the poor and marginalized. His messages often highlight the injustices shown to the poor and the prejudices the well-off have against them. How can we learn from the poor? What is our responsibility to care for the poor and to advocate for justice on their behalf? Jim Wallis and Sojourners will engage your small group to take action. Sessions include: Burger King Mom: Being Poor in America Is There Something Wrong With the Prosperity Gospel? At the Corner of Church and State: What's the Proper Role of Each in Caring for the Poor? The Gospel According to New Orleans Outside the Gate: The Poor and the Global Economy Beyond "Serial Charity" to a Just Society " Designed for use with the Justice for the Poor Video Study (sold separately).
Download or read book The Poverty of Nations written by Barry Asmus and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can win the fight against global poverty. Combining penetrating economic analysis with insightful theological reflection, this book sketches a comprehensive plan for increasing wealth and protecting stability at a national level.
