Poverty and Justice Bible

[Poverty and Justice Admin]

The list of books below is a selection of recent works relating God’s heart for poverty and injustice, as portrayed in The Poverty and Justice Bible, to thought-provoking and practical actions in the world around you.

These and many others are readily available through retail outlets or online.

Actions Speak Louder by Tim Hughes, David Westlake and Mike Pilavachi
Building a Better World: Faith at Work for Change in Society by Malcolm Duncan
Caring for Creation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives edited by Sarah Tillett
Disciples & Citizens by Graham Cray
Eat This Book by Eugene H Peterson
God’s Politics and The Great Awakening by Jim Wallis
Jesus and Politics: Confronting the Powers by Alan Storkey
The Hands and Feet of Jesus by Clive Price
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
William Wilberforce - A Hero for Humanity by Kevin Belmonte
100 Proven Ways to Transform Your Community by Steve Chalke

Please feel free to add your own.

[Paul]

Other books which you might like to look at to find out more on these sorts of things include:

'Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger' by Ron Sider

'On Human Worth' and 'Christian Justice and Public Policy'by Duncan B Forrester

'Issues facing Christians Today' by John Stott

'The Rise of Christianity' by Rodney Stark

This is now quite an extensive reading list - I hope nobody thinks they have to read all of these before they go out there in the big wide world and actually do stuff!

If anyone wants to comment on any of the books mentioned here, feel free to do so...

Paul

[Paul]

As well as the books already mentioned on here, there are also a good number of films which address these themes and would be worth discussing - these include:

Blood Diamond (diamond trade funding conflict in Africa)
Amistad and Amazing Grace (slave trade)
Black Gold (documentary about the coffee trade)
An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore's documentary about climate change)
Goodbye Bafana (dramatises Nelson Mandela's prison story)
In My Country (drama re South African truth and reconciliation process)
Bread and Roses (a drama looking at migrant worker exploitation)

If anyone wantst o add to these lists, feel free to do so!

[margareteskew]

Three books that provide an introduction to current practices with respect to justice in our prisons are:
1) Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright;
2) Doing Time: 25 Yeas of Prison Writing, edited by Bell Gale Chevigny with a Foreword by S. Helen Préjean;
3) Conscience Be My Guide: An Anthology of Prison Writings, edted by Geoffrey Bould.
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Margaret Eskew