Archive for the ‘Actions for social justice’ Category
The social justice fad?
Have you noticed? Social justice is a popular topic for the online church. I spend a lot of time online reading blogs, surfing social media and listening to the chatter of the connected, Internet church. And it seems a lot of online Christians are into social justice. Social justice is all over Sojourners. Blogs, blogs, [...]
January 12, 2010
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Monica Brand · 
9 Comments
Tags: books, non-fiction · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Believing, Reading
Stop sex trafficking: Las Vegas, NV – video of compiled news reports
Shocking numbers in this video. According to this news channel, the average age to be sold into prostitution is between 12 – 14. Wow. That’s wrong. And sad. These children deserve much better.
April 24, 2009
· Monica Brand · 4 Comments
Tags: children, human trafficking, sex, video · Posted in: Actions for social justice
Follow Compassion Bloggers in India
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in India? What about in horrific poverty, in an Indian city famous for it’s slums and suffering? Bloggers traveling with Compassion International will describe those living conditions when they travel to Kolkata, (formally Calcutta) this week. It’s my job to tell you how you [...]
April 23, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Compassion International
Stop and Shop speaks with bloggers
The other day on Twitter, there was chatter regarding companies that understand how to communicate with bloggers (#getit). Add Stop and Shop supermarket to the list, because they definitely Get It. Today Stop and Shop hosted a luncheon at The Frog and the Peach restaurant in New Brunswick (which was lovely; how nice to be [...]
April 15, 2009
· Monica Brand · 5 Comments
Tags: Blogging, Blogging Out Hunger, Community Food Bank of New Jersey, fun, New Jersey · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging
A different type of party post
Hello and welcome. I imagine a lot of you here today are new and most likely will never come back here again. That’s okay. I get it. There are now so many of us – women bloggers – that it’s tough to add one more feed to your bulging reader. (Believe me, I know! So [...]
March 20, 2009
· Monica Brand · 26 Comments
Tags: 5 Minutes for Mom · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging, Uncategorized
Don’t blog about Global Food Crisis Day
Don’t read the stats. Don’t look at the images of starving children. Don’t read books like this. Unless you want to mess with your head and heart and have your nice comfy worldview twisted around, shaken like a spiritual heartquake. I’m telling you – don’t get involved with Compassion International because these little ones suck [...]
March 11, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Actions for social justice, Blogging, Compassion International
