Christians, Poverty and Justice
We are delighted to be developing the Christians, Poverty and Justice Zone in partnership with Micah Challenge, a global Christian campaign which aims to deepen Christians' engagement with the poor; and to challenge leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.Please visit their website for more details: Micah Challenge
The categories below are taken from the Reading List on Micah Challenge's website. Book details in italics are the comments of Dewi Hughes, who wrote the reading list. Many thanks are due to Micah Challenge for allowing us to use this.
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How has Christian thinking concerning mission and social action developed over the years?
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What is the relationship between the gospel and social action?
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In one sense any discussion of integral or holistic mission is a discussion of the mission or task of the church and, therefore, missiological. However, it may be helpful to include just a few texts that are specifically focus on the theology of mission…
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What is the Kingdom of God and what does it mean for us today?
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Integral mission involves living in obedience to God’s word in the whole of life, therefore, we need to understand the biblical theory that conditions the way we should live, biblical ethics, as well as the advice, commands and insights on how we should behave in specific circumstances, biblical morality.
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Here you will find titles containing a general look at issues in integrated mission.
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What is the Church's place in mission and the world?
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How and why should Christians engage in politics?
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What should Christians believe about issues relating to ethnicity?
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What is a Christian perspective on economic issues?
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What does it mean to be male or female? What is a Christian view of feminism?
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How and why Christians should be involved in development work.
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How should Christians view and care for the world around us?