Jim posted this comment on Pray for Uganda:
Sometimes it is difficult to know which crisis to pay the most attention to. What have you two learned about how to cope with all the needs and then where to focus your efforts knowing that in doing so you are ignoring some other critical need?
It is as if our lives are in full time Triage mode since we now “know” what is happening and can’t always bury our heads in the sand.
Jim raises some great questions. Once we choose to become aware of the crushing need in the world around us, it changes and challenges us.
03-08-2007 |
11 Comments »Welcome to Justice and Compassion, a conversation about how to create a more just, compassionate and peaceful world. This blog is sponsored by Off The Map and hosted by Benjamin and Rachel and we invite you to add your voice to this conversation.
We live in a world where 2 billion people live on less than $2 day and 1 billion people do not have access to clean water, a world where 30,000 children die every day of starvation and preventable disease and 15 million children have been orphaned by AIDS. As Westerners, we so often live our comfortable lives completely insulated from the great problems of our time.
Activist Jim Wallis says, “Conversion in our time is to liberate the poor and to make the blind see. The poor need justice and the rich need restored sight.” We are ready to have our eyes opened, to truly see and then be converted and transformed by what we see. We hope you will join us on this risky and exciting journey.
Here is what we envision for this blog…
We want to get a better grasp on what the world situation is in terms of poverty, hunger, disease, war and suffering and to understand what that looks like on both the global and individual scale.
We want to dialogue about what it means to do something about these problems – actively, wisely and practically.
We want to talk about the interaction of compassion and justice and the relationships between the “first world” and “third world” nations.
We want to ask ourselves as participants in this conversation to step outside of our own comfort zones, to be open minded and to be willing to change our ideas and our actions.
Most importantly, we want this blog to be a conversation. We want to provide a forum for respectful interactions between people with very different viewpoints. We want to learn from and be inspired by one another.
We also want you to help us map out this journey…
What do you envision for this blog? What would you like it to look like and be about?
What are some subjects and ideas you’d like to explore and learn about together?
Do you have areas of knowledge or passion that you would like to share with us?
Do you know of anyone doing justice and compassion work who we should interview for our blog?
02-26-2007 |
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