Not too long ago I was visiting some friends in Philadelphia to watch a soccer game, when, as sometimes happens, I got to talking about the mining industry and what it means for the community where I grew up in Guatemala. A friend of a friend told me about another friend of his I just [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics & Social Issues'
Return to El Salvador
June 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Faith & Spirituality, Politics & Social Issues
Tags:documentary·Jamie Moffett·mining·Philadelphia·Return to El Salvador
Conclusion: Seek Social Justice
May 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Faith & Spirituality, Politics & Social Issues
[Part 6 of 6 in my review of the Seek Social Justice study from the Heritage Foundation and WORLD Magazine] This section is about how all the previous parts of the puzzle fit together. The crucial point is made that it doesn’t work to seek social justice in abstract generalities, opposing “injustice” and on the [...]
Tags:injustice·love·Mother Teresa·social justice·William Carey·William Wilberforce
Seek Social Justice (Part Five)
April 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Faith & Spirituality, Politics & Social Issues
[Part 5 of 6 in my review of the Seek Social Justice study from the Heritage Foundation and WORLD Magazine] In this fifth (and penultimate) section of the study we arrive where the first four sections have been leading. In this section we shift, in a sense, from what Heritage argues the government should not [...]
Tags:civil disobedience·government·police·slavery·social justice·trafficking