Welcome to Justice and Compassion, a conversation about how to create a more just, compassionate and peaceful world. This blog is sponsored by Off The Map and we invite you to add your voice to this conversation.
We live in a world where 2 billion people live on less than $2 day and 1 billion people do not have access to clean water, a world where 30,000 children die every day of starvation and preventable disease and 15 million children have been orphaned by AIDS. As Westerners, we so often live our comfortable lives completely insulated from the great problems of our time.
Activist Jim Wallis says, “Conversion in our time is to liberate the poor and to make the blind see. The poor need justice and the rich need restored sight.” We are ready to have our eyes opened, to truly see and then be converted and transformed by what we see. We hope you will join us on this risky and exciting journey.
Here is what we envision for this blog:
We want to get a better grasp on what the world situation is in terms of poverty, hunger, disease, war and suffering and to understand what that looks like on both the global and individual scale.
We want to dialogue about what it means to do something about these problems actively, wisely and practically.
We want to talk about the interaction of compassion and justice and the relationships between the “first world” and “third world” nations.
We want to ask ourselves as participants in this conversation to step outside of our own comfort zones, to be open minded and to be willing to change our ideas and our actions.
Most importantly, we want this blog to be a conversation. We want to provide a forum for respectful interactions between people with very different viewpoints. We want to learn from and be inspired by one another.
I’m Benjamin. I am an undergrad student in psychology in my 4th (Senior) year, and I am the most important person to three people: my wonderful Australian/Irish wife and our two amazing little girls.
I used to be an evangelical Christian, and now I’m not sure what I am. I have grown increasingly aware of and disturbed by the unnecessary suffering in the world from preventable disease, starvation and war, and my responsibility in these areas as one of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
Here’s an interview with me. Here’s my blogspot profile.
Hi, I’m Joe. My career has taken several unusual twists and turns, including working in a prison, in garbage collection, at sewage works and delivering the mail. I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Environmental Science and currently spend most of my time working on the Freedom Clothing Project which is a co-op I set up working with Palestinian manufacturers in Bethlehem.
I blog here about life in the UK, faith and christianarchy.
I’m Rachel. I work as a Family Center Coordinator at an elementary school. I have been married to my best friend Shawn for 14 years and we have a wonderful 11 year old daughter Anna.
I am a follower of Jesus. My desire is to serve him by doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly before God. My passion is to bring an end to extreme poverty in our generation and I’m just crazy enough to believe that it is possible.
Here is my blog.
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