A beautiful reflection on the rhythm of God's justice and a call to engage with that rhythm in a way that takes us back toward healing, wholeness, and restoration.God gave Israel the Year of Jubilee as a social reset. Taken together with Sabbath laws and gleaning laws (laws dealt with the harvest season), it was a way to celebrate God's gifts and put the pieces of a broken society back together again. These Old Testament economic ethics were highly practical laws w...

A beautiful reflection on the rhythm of God's justice and a call to engage with that rhythm in a way that takes us back toward healing, wholeness, and restoration.God gave Israel the Year of Jubilee as a social reset. Taken together with Sabbath laws and gleaning laws (laws dealt with the harvest season), it was a way to celebrate God's gifts and put the pieces of a broken society back together again. These Old Testament economic ethics were highly practical laws w...

IVP Readers' Choice AwardStop outsourcing justice!Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often outsource itto parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work, individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the world.Adam Gustine calls the local church to be just and do justice. He provides a th...

Moving beyond the typical focus on professional and creative classes in faith-and-work discussions, Adam Gustine brings the concerns of working-class laborers, hourly employees, and unpaid workers into the center of theological reflection.Drawing from Scripture and Christian ethics, this book reveals a God who is passionately pro-worker--a God who hears the cries of the marginalized and desires a world where every person's skill and calling serve the good of all. Gustine challenges...

Moving beyond the typical focus on professional and creative classes in faith-and-work discussions, Adam Gustine brings the concerns of working-class laborers, hourly employees, and unpaid workers into the center of theological reflection.Drawing from Scripture and Christian ethics, this book reveals a God who is passionately pro-worker—a God who hears the cries of the marginalized and desires a world where every person's skill and calling serve the good of all. Gustine challenges ...