Resources
Start The Just Life at your church: If you would like more information about starting a TJL meet-up at your church please send us a message with “meet-up” as the subject to contact@thejustlife.org.
Request a curriculum: If you would like more information about having a small group curriculum developed for your church, organization, group, or event please send us a message with “curriculum” as the subject to contact@thejustlife.org.
Request a speaker: If you would like more information about having speakers from The Just Life come to your church, organization, group, or event please send us a message with “speaker” as the subject to contact@thejustlife.org.
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Study Guides:
We continue to develop materials that are unique to each local community. Our core concepts are a solid place to start: Find them here.
Additionally, here are free downloadable study guides from other organizations for your review:
- The Heritage Foundation has recently set up www.seeksocialjustice.com with solid study resources:
Online with multimedia resources here
Download the PDF here
| - The UK based www.JustChurch.info, a project of Church Action on Poverty, has put together a 12 module series:
Online with multimedia resources here
Download the PDF here
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Recommended Reading
Theology and Practice: Racial Reconciliation: Poverty/Wealth/Economics: Community Development: Other:
A Theology as Big as the City by Ray Bakke
Faith Works by Jim Wallis
Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen
Jesus and The Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Just Courage by Gary Haugen
Kingdom Come by Allen Wakabayashi
Practical Justice by Kevin Blue
Real Christianity by William Wilberforce
The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
The Revolution edited by Heather Zydek
Divided by Faith by Michael O. Emerson et al.
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Heart of Racial Justice by McNeil and Richardson
United by Faith by Emerson et. al.
God and Your Stuff by Wesley Willmer
Just Generosity by Ron Sider
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ron Sider
The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs
The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky
The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly
Walking with the Poor by Bryant Myers
When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
Beyond Charity by John Perkins
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life by Robert Lupton
With Justice for All by John Perkins
Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Better Together by Robert Putnam
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Is your favorite book not on this list? Please feel free to suggest any books that have helped you understand what it looks like to live a life of love and justice.
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Links
Be Agents of Change: Begin getting involved today by checking out any one of these organizations:
Christian Volunteering
www.christianvolunteering.org
Community Development
Christian Community Development Association
www.ccda.org
Harlem Children’s Zone
www.hcz.org
The John Perkins Center
www.spu.edu
Disease/AIDS
Acting on AIDS
www.actingonaids.org
American Leprosy Missions
www.leprosy.org
Blood:Water Mission
www.bloodwatermission.com
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfund.org
MAP International
www.map.org
The One Campaign
www.one.org
One Life Revolution
www.oneliferevolution.org
Environmental Justice
Evangelical Environmental Network
www.creationcare.org
Floresta
www.floresta.org
Restoring Eden
www.restoringeden.org
Target Earth
www.targetearth.org
General
Africare
www.africare.org
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
www.bpfina.org
Catholic Charities
www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Catholic Relief Services
www.catholicrelief.org
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
www.crwrc.org
Convoy of Hope
www.convoyofhope.org
Evangelicals for Social Action
www.esa-online.org
Freedom from Fear
www.freedomfromfear.org.uk
Global Volunteer Network
www.volunteer.org.nz
Habitat for Humanity International
www.habitat.org
International Orthodox Charities
www.iocc.org
Lutheran World Federation’s Department for World Service
www.lutheranworld.org
OXFAM International
www.oxfaminternational.org
Reformed Church World Service
www.rcws.rca.org
Samaritan’s Purse
www.samaritanspurse.org
Serrv International
www.serrv.org
Serve Your World
www.serveyourworld.com
Sojourners
www.sojo.net
Taking it Global
www.takingitglobal.org
Ten Thousand Villages
www.tenthousandvillages.org
UNICEF
www.unicef.org
World Relief
www.wr.org
World Vision
www.worldvision.org
Youth With a Mission
www.ywam.org
Gender/ Women’s rights
Feminists For Life
www.feministsforlife.org
Women for Women International
www.womenforwomen.org
Human Trafficking
Free the Slaves
www.freetheslaves.net
HumanTrafficking.org
www.humantrafficking.org
International Justice Mission
www.ijm.org
Love 146
www.love146.org
Not For Sale
www.notforsalecampaign.org
Polaris Project
www.polarisproject.org
Saveaslave.com
www.saveaslave.com
Stop the Traffik
www.stopthetraffik.org
The Emancipation Network
www.madebysurvivors.com
Traffick Free
www.traffickfree.org
Hunger/Clean Water
Action Against Hunger
www.aah-usa.org
African Well Fund
www.africanwellfund.org
America’s Second Harvest
www.secondharvest.org
Blood:Water Mission
www.bloodwatermission.com
Bread for the World
www.bread.org
Food Resource Bank
www.foodresourcebank.org
Freedom from Hunger
www.freedomfromhunger.org
Hunger Banquet
www.hungerbanquet.org
Lifewater International
www.lifewaterinternational.org
Living Waters for the World
www.livingwatersfortheworld.org
Living Water International
www.water.cc
National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
www.studentsagainsthunger.org
Wateraid
www.wateraid.org.uk
Watercan
www.watercan.org
Charity:water
www.charityis.org
Politics
Call to Renewal
www.calltorenewal.org
The Center for Public Justice
www.cpjustice.org
Children’s defense fund
www.childrensdefense.org
Coalition of Human Needs
www.chn.org
DATA
www.data.org
Fair Trade Resource Network
www.fairtraderesource.org
Jubilee USA
www.jubileeusa.org
Make Trade Fair
www.maketradefair.org
Millennium Campaign
www.millenniumcampaign.org
Redefining Progress
http://www.rprogress.org
The One Campaign
www.one.org
Poverty
African Leadership
www.africanleadership.org
Care
www.careusa.org
Childfund International
www.childfundinternational.org
Direct Relief International
www.directrelief.org
First 8
www.first8.org
Global Impact
www.charity.org
The Grameen Foundation
www.grameenfoundation.org
www.stoppovertynow.org
The One Campaign
www.one.org
Special Needs/Children
Christian Children’s Fund
www.christianchildrensfund.org
Compassion International
www.compassion.com
Covering Kids and Families
www.coveringkidsandfamilies.org
War/Genocide/Disaster
Be a Witness
www.beawitness.org/home
Christian Peacemaker Teams
www.cpt.org
Church World Service
www.churchworldservice.org
Fellowship of Reconciliation
www.forusa.org
Genocide Intervention Network
www.genocideinterventionfund.org
MEDAIR
www.medair.org
Nonviolent Peaceforce
www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Orthodox Peace Fellowship
www.incommunion.org
Pax Christi
www.paxchristi.net
Prevent Genocide International
www.preventgenocide.org
War Child
www.warchild.org
Wealth
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
www.philanthropy.iupui.edu
Generous Giving
www.generousgiving.com
Network for Good
www.networkforgood.org
The Simple Living Network
www.simpleliving.net