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Addresses contemporary socioeconomic concerns from a biblical and mission-based perspective. Offers a tool (a social justice inventory) for evaluating ourselves in light of a biblical theology of wealth and poverty.
Al Tizon holds a PhD in missiology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He is affiliate professor of missional and global leadership at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, and lead pastor of Grace Fellowship Community Church in San Francisco, where he and his wife reside. He has been engaged in community development, church leadership, advocacy, and urban ministry both in the Philippines and the United States. His books include Whole & Reconciled: Gospel, Church, and Mission in a Fractured World.
“Almost everyone I know and every social group I belong to could benefit from a careful reading of this challenging little volume. In an age (that means every age, perhaps especially our age) when genuine concern for the poor so naturally mutates into harsh judgment or simple neglect; when even “Christian” political leaders avert their eyes or simply ignore the complicated “other”; when many churches seem to see as their mission the creation of insular communities, schools, institutions and facilities designed to keep the poor out of sight and out of mind; this timely book needs to be read and discussed. If repentance for the systemic evils of our self-serving “empty way of life inherited from our forefathers” is even possible, it might begin with this modest but hard-hitting book.”–Jonathan Bonk, Mission Research Professor, Boston School of Theology, author, Missions and Money
