Ohhhh, gotta get my hands on this. I had found the site a while back, but it was still in progress...Thanks for setting it back in front of me, Christianne!


The Ordinary Radicals - Trailer from Jamie Moffett on Vimeo.

Jedidiah

Found this via Relevant Magazine yesterday....it's exciting to see businesses buiding stronger foundations in social justice.


Jedidiah Clothing: Who We Are from Jedidiah Clothing on Vimeo.

Burning in my heart

Beyond Borders...a 2003 film starring Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie - I watched it last night. The second half seemed to be more...Hollywood-ish, but the first half, and the whole movie overall, was rather jolting. Especially the scenes of famine in Ethiopia...the faces of the people...the babies. So many dying. Raw suffering. Pure need.

Jeremiah 5:27-31...Read it this morning. What a perfect, sickening depiction of what we have become. We have our own "prophets" who "prophecy falsely," and local leaders and congregations who gobble it up as Gospel truth. You hear today's prosperity preachers talking about the good life and great wealth God's just waiting to dump on us...when we already live in such abundance....yet we have "grown fat and sleek...and do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper...[or]defend the rights of the needy."

Compare this...

To this...

We pursue affluence and luxury under the guise of seeking God's blessing...and neglect the starving, oppressed lives all around us. This should put fire in our bellies...

From the IJM...

Dateline NBC this evening will feature a special update on IJM undercover work in Svay Pak, Cambodia that resulted in the rescue of 37 girls. The Dateline NBC story, entitled “Children for Sale,” originally aired in January 2004 and has received significant airtime as well as two Emmy awards.
Tonight’s update will include a new interview with Gary Haugen as well as interviews with several of the young girls rescued by IJM in the original raids.

9pm EDT/PDTDateline NBC
Please watch and spread the word to friends who may be new to IJM!

Gratefully– International Justice Mission


P.S. Feel free to visit www.ijm.org/presscenter for previous Dateline NBC footage along with recent IJM media coverage. For more information surrounding the Svay Pak operation, please read Terrify No More by Gary Haugen.

This is absolutely sickening. Our lives are sooooo sheltered, sooooo far removed from any real problems.

Kenyan children abducted, tortured

Hill of Crosses

Yeah....another short post. It's amazing how busy a schedule can become in the middle of summer, working a part-time job, and having no classes to keep up with. Makes me wonder how much is actually necessary.....?

Anyway. A friend send this to me and...wow. What a symbol of devotion.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

Heartbreaking...

"Uganda's children work on dangerous rock pile"

I just read this article...it's so sad, it's so wrong, yet what can be done? Gary Haugen (founder, International Justice Mission) says that the first step is to get over this ridiculous idea that "I can't do anything."

God is a just God...how can we be his hands and feet in carrying out justice in this incredibly unjust world?