Blog/Podcasts

Join us for the VJN Leaders Summit // Chicago, November 12-13

Does your church already work to fight human trafficking, to end poverty, or engage with creation care? Or your church is engaged with immigration reform, foster/orphan care, school partnerships, housing rights, or food pantries? Please join us for a historic, first gathering of Vineyard pastors, 

Freeing Slaves: Book Review of Child Catchers

This week, we’re highlighting the interconnectivity between adoption and human trafficking. Unfortunately, the anti-trafficking field can overlook this connection, and many children are being trafficked into the adoption system. VJN member Kristina Gentner offers her review of The Child Catchers, a book that she has 

INTERCONNECTIVITY: How Worship Leads Us to Do Justice, Part 1

VJN has invited Elizabeth Lawton, a member of the Society of Vineyard Scholars, to enrich our conversation by offering her insights on the relationship between leisure, worship, and pursuing God’s justice. Elizabeth is a graduate student in moral theology and Christian Ethics at the University 

What’s the difference between need and crisis // Connecting at the VUSA Nat’l Conference next week

In gearing up for our VJN workshop and Meet-Up at tne Vineyard National Conference next week, I’ve been reading Toxic Charity by Robert Lupton this morning. He candidly unpacks the detrimental effects of responding to chronic needs as if it were a crisis. Result? Reading 

Haiti: A Case Study of the Interconnectivity of Justice

Haiti: A Case Study of the Interconnectivity of Justice

photo by Christian AlsEncountering the interconnectivity of human trafficking, poverty and the environment can help us see where we might join the Father in pursuing the Justice of the Kingdom.  Experts in migration crises from countries like Haiti to the U.S. typically look at “triggers”