Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World Book

This book is in three parts. 1) Taking up the Challenge 2) Hope & Despair: God's Four Affirmations of Justice 3) Real-World Tools for Rescuing the Oppressed.

I found the first two parts to be especially powerful and moving and healing. In the first part, he tells his own story, how he was sent by the UN to assess the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and the grief that grew and overwhelmed him out of that experience, essentially changing the course of his life. In the second part he delves into scripture to answer his questions about how God feels, what God says, what God does, and how God calls us to respond to injustice.

As someone who has personally experienced a lot of grief related to the injustices involved in international adoption, I found this incredibly helpful. It is not an emotional appeal, but an intelligent, honest, in-depth study into evil, good, God's role and our role. Social justice issues have often been ignored by modern American conservative Christians and this basically a challenge to that paradigm. Our God is a God of justice and being concerned with justice is something we are called to as his image bearers.

In essence, "the good news about injustice" is that we can do something about it. We are not called to simply chalk it up to God's sovereignty and sit in frustration that he hasn't redeemed the world yet. Neither are we on our own to battle it out. We are called to pray fight, serve, love, tell, work in faith that God works through his people.