Westminster John Knox Press Radio: Social Justice

Social Justice

June 29, 2009

WJK Radio 5: Rebecca Barnes-Davies on 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth

Hosts: Dan Braden, Jana Reiss
Today’s Guest Author: Rebecca Barnes-Davies

Rebecca Barnes-Davies discusses simple steps we can all take—as individuals and within our communities and congregations—to help ensure the survival of God’s creation. Her new book, 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth: How You and Your Church Can Make a Difference, is now available from Westminster John Knox Press.

Rebecca Barnes-Davies has been an environmental activist for well over a decade, advocating for public policy changes, educating groups of concerned Christians, and writing numerous articles. She has served as director of Presbyterians for Restoring Creation and as a program assistant in the Environmental Justice Office of the Presbyterian Church USA. An independent consultant for environmental and social justice ministry, she is currently studying at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky.

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Running Time: 34:02 minutes

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Related Resources:

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How it Can Renew America

The Green Bible: Understand the Bible’s Powerful Message for the Earth

Christian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty (editors), Prayers for the New Social Awakening

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"Shadows," by David LaMotte

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April 27, 2009

WJK Radio 3: Chris Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty on the New Social Creed

Hosts: Dan Braden, Jana Reiss
Today’s Guest Authors: Christian Iosso, Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

Prayers for the New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1908 Social Creed, and to mark the development of The Social Creed for the 21st Century, Chris Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty compiled Prayers for the New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed, available now from WJK. They are here to discuss what the new Social Creed means in today’s ever-changing world. Stay tuned after the interview for a bonus reading of “A Hymn for the Bees.”

Christian Iosso is a Presbyterian minister and Coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty is Assistant Professor of Theology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and a minister of the Word and Sacrament for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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Running Time: 27:44 minutes

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Related Resources:

Walter Rauschenbusch, For God and the People: Prayers for the Social Awakening

Rebecca Todd Peters and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty (editors), To Do Justice: Engaging Progressive Christians in Social Action

Pamela K. Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters, and Laura A. Stivers (editors), Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World

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“Shadows,” by David Lamotte

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February 23, 2009

WJK Radio 1: Rufus Burrow Jr. on African American history and Martin Luther King Jr.

Hosts: Dan Braden, Jana Riess
Today’s Guest Author: Rufus Burrow Jr.

On the heels of an historic presidential election, Dan and Jana talk with Rufus Burrow Jr. about the history of race relations in America and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rufus Burrow Jr. is Indiana Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of Theological Social Ethics at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, and the author of the forthcoming book, Martin Luther King Jr. for Armchair Theologians.

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