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.
This is Restore and Rebuild, the post abortion course
https://havencentre.org.uk
The Haven Pregnancy Counselling Centre
https://care.org.uk/cause/
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