Justice and Sexuality

Resourceful websites

Living in Love and Faith: The Church of England resource to help churches engage in and reflect on Christian teaching and learning about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage:
The Beautiful Story: the Church of England Evangelical Council resource/film about the church’s teaching on marriage:
Living Out: helping people, churches and society talk about faith and sexuality:
A Matter of Integrity: Steve Chalke’s 2013 paper on sexuality, the New Testament and the church (a progressive view):
A talk by Jon Tyson exploring the key biblical texts about homosexuality:

Justice for the Poor

The Myth of the Undeserving Poor
Martin Charlesworth and Natalie Williams

The Poverty & Justice Bible 

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Ronald Sider

Doing Good Better – Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference
William Macaskill

Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just
Tim Keller

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself
Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett

Factfulness – Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling

Justice for the Unborn

Abortion
John Stott

Matters of Life and Death
John Wyatt

What Happens After an Abortion? The other side of the story
Jonathan Jeffes

Abortion
Dr Lizzie Ling

A Heart of Compassion
Philip Clarke

Resourceful websites

https://thestress-test.com
This is the Stress Test, mentioned at the end of the sermon

https://postabortioncourse.com/38/Home
This is Restore and Rebuild, the post abortion course

https://havencentre.org.uk
The Haven Pregnancy Counselling Centre

https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion
A Christian agency that conducts research and advocacy in a variety of areas including abortion.

https://righttolife.org.uk
This is a pro-life charity engaged in education, politics and the media. They alert their subscribers to new votes coming up in parliament etc.

Racial Justice

We need to talk about Race
Ben Lindsay

Reading While Black
Esau McCaulley

Beyond Colorblind
Sarah Shin

God is not a White Man
Chine McDonald

Natives
Akala

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Reni Eddo Lodge

Black and British
David Olusoga

Be The Bridge
Latasha Morrison

BBC Documentary
Black and British by David Olusoga

Justice and Disability

The Social Contexts of Disability Ministry
Albert A. Herzog Jr

The Enabled Life
Roy McCloughry

The Bible, Disability and The Church
Amos Yong

Disability and the Way of Jesus
Bethany McKinney Fox

Resourceful websites

Through the Roof (Christian Disability Charity)
Churches for All (A Network of Christian Disability Charities that seeks to educate the church)
Stats to download (pdf)

Justice for Women

Websites for help

Websites for equipping the Church

Refuge
For women and children.
Against domestic violence.

Restored UK
Get help

Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence

Restored UK
Equipping the Church

We know it’s not just women who are domestically abused – here is a resource for men too who may be in a hidden battle to survive. https://mada.org.uk

Justice for the Environment

Saying yes to Life
Ruth Valerio

Just Living
Ruth Valerio

Scripture, Culture and Agriculture
Ellen Davis

Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth

Following on from our Climate Emergency prayer service led by The Point Justice Group here are some helpful suggestions for us as individuals or families.  People’s suggestions for the church as an organisation will be discussed by the Trustees/Staff and OLT teams soon.

Justice for the Persecuted

Promise and Persecution
Kenneth Harrod

Imprisoned with ISIS
Petr Jasek with Rebecca George

When Faith is Forbidden
Todd Nettleton

Free at last
Asia Bibi

Neither bomb nor bullet
Andrew Boyd

Tortured for Christ
Richard Wurmbrand

Falsely Accused

Paying the Price

Forced to flee

World Prayer Map