The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance

Christianity Today Book Award Winner

Justice requires perseverance--a deep perseverance we can't muster on our own. The world's needs are staggering and even the most passion-driven reactions, strategies, and good intentions can falter. But we serve a God who never falters, who sees the needs, hears the cries, and gives strength--through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit--to his people.

Offering a comprehensive biblical theology of justice drawn from the whole story of Scripture, this book invites us to know more intimately the God who loves justice and calls us to give our lives to seek the flourishing of others. The authors explore stories of injustice around the globe today and spur Christians to root their passion for justice in the persevering hope of Christ. They also offer practices that can further form us into people who join God's work of setting things right in the world. Now in paper with an added reader's guide.

Bethany Hanke Hoang (MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary) engages leaders around the world with the critical connection between justice and spiritual formation. She advises and speaks on behalf of International Justice Mission (IJM) and served with IJM as director of biblical justice initiatives, such as the Global Prayer Gathering and the IJM Institute, for more than a decade. Hoang was named among "50 Women to Watch" by Christianity Today and one of "20 Women to Watch" by Catalyst. She has also been profiled for her leadership in the justice movement by Outreach and Relevant and has published Deepening the Soul for Justice. Hoang lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kristen Deede Johnson (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is principal of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. She previously served as dean, vice president of academic affairs, and G. W. and Edna Haworth Professor of Educational Ministries and Leadership at Western Theological Seminary. She teaches and writes in the areas of theology, culture, formation, and political theory and is the author of Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference.