The Question of Politics

and the Christian Response: New Testament Ethics

Public Survey/Display

Race - What's the Problem? (and instructions)

Is Religion Just a Cultural Thing? (and instructions)

How Much of an Atheist Are You? (and instructions)

Your Body: Does it Have a Purpose? (and instructions) 

  

Christian Social Justice:  Comparisons

How Does the Christian Faith Compare with Other Belief Systems?

The Conflict of Stories: Christian, Western, Muslim, Secular, Individual

The Conflict of Stories (chart)

Why Question Atheism from a Political and Moral Perspective?

 

Christian Social Justice:  A Systematic Approach

What's More Important to God?  Individual or Social Order? (and ppt)

Human Dignity: Does Every Individual Matter?

Jesus and Our Desire for Justice

Four Types of Justice: Meritocratic, Distributive, Libertarian, Restorative

Christian Social Justice, Part 1: Distributive Justice Over Meritocratic Justice - Critiquing the Right

* Wayne Grudem's Misuse of Scripture in Politics According to the Bible

* The False Priority of Libertarian Justice in American History

Christian Social Justice, Part 2: Restorative Justice Above All - Critiquing the Left

* Christian Faith as the Basis for Political Pluralism and Economic Progressivism

* Does the Christian Story of Sexuality Make Any Sense at All?

* Should I Support or Oppose Gay Marriage?

* Slavery in Christianity, Part 1:  Slavery in the Bible, Slavery Today (and ppt)

* Slavery in Christianity, Part 2:  Abolitionism from the First to Fifteenth Century

* Pearl Harbor and September 11th, 2001 (16 Sep 2001)

* The Role of Jesus in Revolution and the Pursuit of Justice

Christian Social Justice, Part 3: We Are Guilty of the Obstruction of Justice

Christian Social Justice, Part 4: Jesus, the Justice of God, and the Renewal of a Just Humanity

Christian Social Justice, Part 5: The Restorative Justice of the Triune God

Work, Progress, and Justice: A Biblical and Historical Analysis of the Vocation of the Church

 

Personal and Practical: Embracing Jesus' Transformation of You

What's More Important to God?  Individual or Social Order? (and ppt)

Lead a Global Poverty Impact group:  live simply, give generously, in community

* The eight week GPI curriculum

* The eight week leader's guide for Scriptures

Christian Ethics: U.S. Foreign Policy, Abortion, and Racial & Ethnic Injustice

Christian Ethics: Engaging the Public School System

Christian Ethics: Engaging the Corporation

Christian Ethics: Organization and Authority

Should I Support or Oppose Gay Marriage?
  

Christian Resources
* Jesus Radicals website

* Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity

* Jacques Ellul, The Betrayal of the West

* Jacques Ellul, Jesus and Marx

* Jacques Ellul, Money and Power

* Jacques Ellul, The Politics of God and the Politics of Man

* Jacques Ellul, The Technological Bluff

* Jacques Ellul, The Technological System

* Jacques Ellul, Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective

* Glen Stassen and David Gushee, Kingdom Ethics 

* Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament

* John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

* Oliver O'Donovan, The Desire of Nations

* Oliver O'Donovan, Resurrection and Moral Order

* John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory

* Marcia Pally, The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good

  

General Resources 

* The Corporation, a documentary about the history of corporations and the problems we have with them

* Why We Fight, a documentary about the corrupting ties between the U.S. military and corporations

* The Inside Job, a documentary about the financial industry and the economic collapse of 2008

* The Future of Food, a documentary about the food industry, focusing on problems with genetically modified food

* Food Inc, a documentary about the food industry, focusing on problems with the industrialized food system

* King Corn, a documentary about the corn industry

* Genetically Modified Food Will Not End World Hunger, a paper by Christian Aid, a Christian ecology organization

* Sugar: The Bitter Truth, a 2009 lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig, about sugar and why we should avoid fructose

* Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Agricultural History, an academic paper tying soil conditions to slavery to modern day migrant farm workers

* Robert Glennon, Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

* Alex Prud'homme, The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century

* The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class, a 2008 lecture by Elizabeth Warren on rising inequality between rich and poor

* The Racial Gap Increases Fourfold, Institute on Assets and Policy at Brandeis, May 2010

* The U.S. Income Gap Triples, 1979 - 2007

* The U.S. Income Gap Highest Ever: Boston Globe, Sep 28, 2010

* Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

* Lawrence Lessig, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop it

* Jonathan Kozol, Shame of the Nation: Restoring Apartheid Schooling in America

* Donna Franklin, Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family

* Monica Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Shah, God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

 

 

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