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Links for July 19th

Micah Challenge USA – Micah Challenge
"Micah Challenge USA is Christian Campaign to end extreme poverty. We are part of a global Micah Challenge movement of churches, universities, organizations, families, and individuals in 41 countries. Christians from Mozambique to Mongolia are united in prayer and action to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
tags:
activism
poverty
Weblog » Emergent Village » A Time To Reconstruct
Jonathan Brink lets us see into his ideas for a reconstructed way of looking at the atonement. It's a beautiful piece, and though I'm not entirely sure I'm with him it's worth a read.
tags:
emergent
theology
atonement
Vittana | Building a world where anyone can go to college
Brilliant idea: a site where folks can make loans to individual students around the world so they can afford to go to college. Many people in my generation have been engulfed by student loan debt, but even that is better than the opportunities afforded many folks around the world. This is a way to fix that.
tags:
economic-activism
economics
education
activism
microfinance
How can the West preach nonviolence to Muslims? – Glocal Christianity
An examination of what nonviolence really means, and the utter hypocrisy we show when we try to advocate it for Muslims without doing it ourselves.
tags:
culture
peace-activism
peace

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