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    Pursuing Truth Over Revenge

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    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Micah 6:8, Luke 23:34, Exodus 23:5, 1 Peter 3:9, Proverbs 24:17, Luke 6:35
    During that time there was a pastor named Peter Miller, and all through his ministry in a small town in Lancaster County, he had a neighbor who took great pleasure in mocking and ridiculing Miller and...

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    Preventing Vengeance

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    Mia Levetan
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    Genesis 4:8–15, Exodus 21:23–25, Micah 6:6–8 , Matthew 5:38–45, Romans 12:17–21, Psalm 46:9–10
    I did some of my Clinical Pastoral Education Units in Gastonia. One of the units that I served was the Emergency Department. If there was an incident that was suspected to be gang related, they would ...

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    Atonement

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    Ian McEwan
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    Ephesians 1:7, Romans 5:8, Micah 6:8, Hebrews 9:22, Psalm 51:1-2, Isaiah 1:18
    When something has gone wrong, justice needs to be done and seen to be done. Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement examines exactly this same dynamic. The central character, Bryony Tallis, makes a grave mista...

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    An Eye for an Eye

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    James S. Hewett
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    James 2:13, Matthew 5:7, Zechariah 7:9-10, Proverbs 21:3, Micah 6:8
    Zaleusus flourished as king of the ancient Greek Locrians in about 500 B.C. His government over the Locrians was severe but just. In one of his decrees he forbade the use of wine unless it were prescr...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Micah 6:8, Matthew 5:7, James 2:13, Psalm 85:10, Zechariah 7:9, Proverbs 21:21, Luke 6:36
    Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful.

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    Justice is Personal

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    Andy Crouch
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    Matthew 25:40, Leviticus 19:15, Galatians 3:28, James 2:8-9, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17
    When did the topic of justice become important to you?” Gideon Strauss posed that question to two dozen people crammed into our living room one fall evening in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Some of us wer...

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    David McCullough
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    Micah 6:8, Revelation 6:4, Romans 3:10-12, Matthew 23:27, Isaiah 5:20
    History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should rea...

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    Miroslav Volf
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    Matthew 7:21, Ephesians 2:10, Titus 1:16, Matthew 25:40, Romans 12:21, Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8
    There is something profoundly hypocritical about praising God for God’s mighty deeds of salvation and cooperating at the same time with the demons of destruction, whether by neglecting to do good or b...

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 3:11, Philippians 4:8, Romans 12:18, Micah 6:8, Psalm 34:18, James 1:27, Isaiah 61:1-2
    When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the ...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Jeremiah 9:24, Psalm 99:4, Isaiah 61:8, Proverbs 21:3, Micah 6:8
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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    Almighty God, too often we settle for

    Author
    Laura B. Murray
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    Romans 12:18, Psalm 51:10, Isaiah 1:17, James 2:13, Micah 6:8, Matthew 5:6
    Almighty God, too often we settle for brokenness in our lives. Rather than offering forgiveness, we hold onto offense. Rather than pursuing justice, we turn away . Rather than offering mercy, we c...

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    A Guard Against Paternalism

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    Kent Annan
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    Galatians 6:2, Romans 12:10, Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8, James 5:16
    Practicing confession is one way to guard against paternalism in both extreme and more subtle ways. For example, we can tell stories of justice in a way that discounts other people’s agency—that is, t...

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    Biblical Rigtheousness Goes Beyond the Private

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    John R. W. Stott
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    Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:16-17, Amos 5:24, Jeremiah 22:3, Zechariah 7:9-10
    For biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well. And social righteousness, as we learn from the law and the prophets, is concerned with ...

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    Gracious God, you tend to the earth as

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    Chip Hardwick
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    1 John 1:9, James 5:4, Psalm 24:1, Isaiah 5:7, Micah 6:8
    Gracious God, you tend to the earth as your vineyard, longing for it to bring fruit. You want our society and our lives to look more and more like the Kingdom of Heaven. We work against your plans, so...

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    The White Man’s Burden

    Author
    Kent Annan
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    Galatians 6:2-3, Matthew 6:1-4, Romans 12:10, Isaiah 58:6-7, 1 Peter 5:5-6, James 4:10, Micah 6:8
    In the context of justice, I think what Christians need to confess about their pride isn’t so much about taking credit away from God but from the people we help. One version of this is sometimes refer...

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Zephaniah 3:5, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 33:5, Jeremiah 9:24, Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 89:14
    The Scriptures find the justice of God a virtue to be extolled, not a blemish to be concealed.

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    Fixing the Road

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    Michelle Ferrigno Warren
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    Psalm 82:3-4, Amos 5:24, Jeremiah 22:3, Matthew 25:35-40, Proverbs 31:8-9, Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8
    After several years of engagement in justice work Warren says in reflection on the story of the Good Samaritan, “I realized it’s not okay to have a road that perpetuates the beating, robbing, and pote...

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    The Dark Side of the Web

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    Andy Crouch
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    Matthew 25:40, Romans 12:21, Luke 4:18-19, James 1:27, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17
    In October 2014 Wired magazine reported on the dirty work every social media company must somehow handle: moderating the deluge of exploitative, degrading content posted in unimaginable quantities aro...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Matthew 23:23, Jeremiah 22:3, Proverbs 21:3, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17, Amos 5:24
    You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ... If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Cons...

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    A Venomous Creature At Your Bosom

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    Frederick Douglass
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    Matthew 25:40, Jeremiah 22:3, James 2:1, Psalm 82:3-4, Micah 6:8
    Frederick Douglass describes how the evils of slavery and racism acts as a sap on the integrity of both our country and our faith in a God where there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free: Fello...

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    William Wilberforce
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    Amos 5:24, Jeremiah 22:3, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 58:6
    Never, never will we desist till we extinguish every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times will scarce believe that it has been s...

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    You give us prophets, holy God, to cry

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    Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Jeremiah 1:7-8, Ezekiel 2:4-5, Isaiah 6:8, Zechariah 7:9-10, Matthew 23:34
    You give us prophets, holy God, to cry out for justice and mercy. Open our ears to hear them, and to follow the truth they speak, lest we support injustice to secure our own well-being. Give prophets ...

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    All: Gracious God, we have become

    Author
    Laura B. Murray
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    Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:31-46, Micah 6:8, James 2:15-17, Luke 6:27-36, Isaiah 58:6-7, 1 John 3:17, Zechariah 7:9-10, Colossians 3:12, Proverbs 21:13
    All: Gracious God, we have become callous to those in need, holding back compassion yet unsparing with judgment. We defend our motivations, rather than using all you have given us to love and care for...

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    Violence is Intentional

    Author
    Gary A.Haugen
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    Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8, Exodus 22:22-23, Proverbs 14:31, Luke 4:18
    In his excellent book, Just Courage , founder and CEO of the International Justice Mission, Gary Haugen articulates some of the realities behind the systemic oppression of the poor around the world...

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    Rosa Parks & Helpful Comparisons

    Author
    Richella J. Parham
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    Romans 12:2, Luke 4:18-19, Ecclesiastes 3:7-8, Amos 5:24, Proverbs 31:8-9, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17
    Very often, comparison to an ideal is a helpful practice, not a harmful one. Helpful comparisons are those that place a normal or ideal condition on one side of a scale and a real-life condition on th...

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    Author
    John Selden
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    Zechariah 7:9-10, Micah 6:8, Romans 2:14-15, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 37:28, Isaiah 33:22, Leviticus 19:15
    Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in religion, what everyone pleases to make it: sometimes they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of co...

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    Struggling with Charity

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    Kent Annan
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    Hebrews 13:16, Micah 6:8, Luke 6:38, Proverbs 19:17, James 1:27
    On the fifteenth of each month, Alicia has thirty dollars withdrawn from her checking account to sponsor Belyse, a beautiful, brown-eyed girl from Kenya, who then gets school and a hot meal each day. ...

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    Returning to a Better America

    Author
    Ken Wytsma
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    Amos 5:21-24, Micah 6:6-8 , Ecclesiastes 7:10, Psalm 146:3-7, Matthew 23:23-24, Philippians 3:13-14
    There are many people who will always want to return to the time when America was great. But was there ever a time when America was a wonderful place for everyone? As I saw on a Facebook meme recently...

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    Confess Your Mixed Motives

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    Kent Annan
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    Micah 6:8, James 1:27, Isaiah 1:17, Romans 12:2, Galatians 6:9-10
    In U2’s song “One,” Bono sings, “Have you come here to play Jesus / To the lepers in your head?”2 Yes, if you are involved in justice work, you probably have. So have I. This isn’t bad. Just honest. W...

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    Author
    Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Psalm 72:12-14, Zechariah 7:9-10, Ezekiel 34:16, Proverbs 31:8-9, Micah 6:8, Leviticus 19:9-10
    Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and de...
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