Tag: justice

Spotlight interview: Ending Poverty with Liz Theoharis

Spotlight interview: Ending Poverty with Liz Theoharis

Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, with Rev. William Barber. She has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States, working with and advising grassroots organizations with significant victories including the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Vermont Workers Center, Domestic Workers United, the United Workers Association, the National Union of the Homeless and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

Book Review: With Justice for All by John Perkins

Book Review: With Justice for All by John Perkins

This review was written by VJN intern Sydney Wilson. Sydney is a psychology major at Liberty University. With Justice For All is an excellent book focusing on reconciliation and justice between different ethnic and racial groups. Growing up in a small, racially discriminative town in 

A Biblical View on Gender Equality

A Biblical View on Gender Equality

“For many cultures, including Christian culture…too often…will lean upon select passages of scripture, and interpret them very poorly, as a rationale to support male rule, and that is what we call Christian patriarchy.” This podcast episode features Mimi Haddad, who leads a workshop at the 

“Making Room for Monasticism: Doing Justice from the Margins”: Talking with Jared Boyd

“Making Room for Monasticism: Doing Justice from the Margins”: Talking with Jared Boyd

There are many people in our churches doing justice with people on the margins. In this podcast, Jared Boyd leads a conversation about how the monastic tradition – and particularly the new monastic expression in the Vineyard Movement, The Order of Sustainable Faith – can 

VJN Spotlight: Interview with Becky Peters

In this interview, Becky Peters gives advice on how to promote diversity in a culture where “like produces like”, concrete starting points to follow when thinking about planting a church in an urban environment and what her goals for the future of the Vineyard would