Category: Social Justice
Joel Osteen and Reality TV
On November 29th, TMZ reported that “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett will be teaming with Joel Osteen, pastor of America’s largest church, for a primetime network show in 2012. Burnett told TMZ, “The premise of the show is that ordinary people will...
Wearing Social Justice on our Sleeves
Just in time for Christmas, I thought I would finally excerpt this piece that I wrote earlier this year for the good folks at Boundless: Yet at the same time, even where our “compassionate consumerism” is not the whole of...
The Christian Post and Sojourners
Apologies for returning to this theme yet again, but this is what happens when discussions occur and I have words to say. At any rate, The Christian Post took a gander at Mere-O today and provided a reasonably accurate overview...
Sojourners and the Controversy that Will Not Go Away
Sojourners, the leading organization of the evangelical left, can’t seem to escape the controversy that erupted in March when it rejected an advertisement from Believe out Loud, an organization trying to “significantly increase the number of local churches and denominations...
Messmore on Social Justice
My friend Ryan Messmore has a helpful outline of what social justice meant to the fellow who coined the term. The money quote: Taparelli believed that people have the right to freely form different levels of association and to interact...