Inter-Varsity Press

Accounts of child prostitution, state-sponsored religious persecution, racial violence, torture and genocide often make us wonder what we can possibly do in response do in response. And certainly they make us wonder where the God of justice is.

Jesus, however, said, "Take heart! I have overcome the world." Gary Haugen sees the truth of Jesus' claim vindicated throughout Scripture, which portrays a God who rises up against injustice.

He also sees this truth in the lives of sometimes little-known Christians who through the years have courageously confronted evil when they saw it. Here he tells stories of these witnesses of hope in a hurting world.

The good news about injustice is that God is against it. God is in the business of using the unlikely to perform the holy, Haugen contends. And in this book he not only offers stories of courageous witnesses past and present, he also calls the body of Christ to action. He offers concrete guidance on the ways and means its members can rise up to seek justice throughout the world.

Here is a book that can bring hope in a hurting world.

Commendations

It is from his firsthand experience of areas of the world where abuse and oppression are both endemic and extreme that Haugen has written this clarion call for Christian participation in the struggle for justice.

The structure and argument of the book are clear and straightforward.

.. he proclaims that God is a God is passionately concerned about justice.

.. within the limitations set by the particular confines of Haugen's work, this is a fine book.

It made me think that if every Christian was passionately concerned about one area or issue of injustice - at home or in another part of the world - and did all they could to combat it, the world could be a very different place. Not just 'could'; the world should be a very different place.

Anvil