Let Justice Flow

His brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshal. He was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. But through it all he returned good for evil, love for hate, progress for prejudice, and brought hope to black and white alike. The story of John Perkins is no ordinary story. Rather, it is a gripping portrayal of what happens when faith thrusts a person into the midst of a struggle against racism, oppression, and injustice. It is about the costs of discipleship--the jailings, the floggings, the despair, the sacrifice. And it is about the transforming work of faith that allowed John to respond to such overwhelming indignities with miraculous compassion, vision, and hope.

Thomas Whitehall, the son of a Mississippi power couple, is injured during a SWAT competition, which is similar to what actually happened to a young policeman. With debilitating injuries, Tom is left in a coma and his wealthy parents want revenge against whoever is responsible. His wife Savannah is left to fend for herself against one disaster after another. In one moment of time, the promising young couple's life changes in the face of an unrelenting and unjust world that shatters their dreams. Clandestine forces are at work from many angles bearing down on the public relations professional at a major hospital. Who is at the center of it all? Is there no justice for her?

Written by prominent scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this diverse collection of essays discusses the contemporary relevance of the prophetic mode and challenges in the areas of religion, politics, and society. The contributors critically investigate the creative interaction between the religious and secular domains and explain how the prophetic mode can provide solutions to pressing problems such as war, oppression, poverty, hunger, and discrimination. The essays explore possibilities of achieving an integration of prophetic ethics, social scientific understanding, and democratic and constitutional statecraft and they describe how the prophetic mode currently manifests itself in political philosophy, history, religion, and literature.

Connecting the Old Testament with the modern church, this book relates the testimonies and stories of Israel's faith in the Hebrew canon to the character and conduct of Christians and the Christian community today. By opening up the moral resources available in the Old Testament, this book will spur discussion of both the character of those moral resources and their pertinence to ethical issues in a complex and challenging time.

This publication contains the text of the brief presented by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples on November, 8, 1993, and two workshop models. Each workshop lasts for approximately two-and-a-half hours. Topics covered include Culture and Spirituality, Self-determination and Land Claims, and Residential Schools.