Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
This season we are focusing on justice as an aspect of spiritual formation and we believe Lent to be the perfect season to explore this connection. Using A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey, and the lectionary, we will look at various aspects of justice, its importance to God and why the modern church has often regrettably failed to live out God’s call to “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with the Lord.”
Ruth is joined by Gary Haugen on today’s episode. Gary Haugen has spent most of his career fighting injustice at the systemic level as a lawyer and founder of International Justice Mission. Ruth and Gary discuss the moment Gary realized he’d grown up his whole life in the church never once hearing a message about how much God cared about justice. They talk about the ways in which the poor are chronically vulnerable to violence, how the church often isn’t doing work that addresses this issue, and how, at IJM, attention to their own spiritual formation is crucial in sustaining their justice work.
Lectionary scripture for this week:
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Psalm 23
Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
Mentioned in this episode:
Just Courage by Gary Haugen
The Locust Effect by Gary Haugen
Gary Alan Haugen is an American attorney who is the Founder, CEO, and former President of International Justice Mission, a global organization that protects the poor from violence throughout the developing world. Gary has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. He is the author of several books, including Good News About Injustice (Intervarsity Press) and, most recently, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press).
Journey with us this Lent! Our season is inspired by A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey, and many of our guests are contributors to this resource.
Music Credit:
Kingdom Come by Aaron Niequist
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded from Lent Music in Solitude
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Season 8: Episode 1 | First Sunday of Advent: The Importance of Waking Up
Season 7: Week 8 | Eastertide: Living in the Mystery
Season 7: Week 7 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Passion
Season 7: Week 6 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Palms
Season 7: Week 5 | Suffering: Dying that we Might Live
Season 7: Week 4 | Confession: Coming Home to God
Season 7: Week 3 | Repentance: Cleaning our Messy House
Season 7: Week 2 | Self-Denial: Setting our Minds on Things Above
Season 7: Week 1 | Solitude: Fashioning our Own Wilderness
Season 7: Ash Wednesday | Crossing the Threshold Into Lent
Season 6: Episode 12 | In Returning and Rest You Shall Be Saved
Season 6: Episode 11 | Remember the Signs
Season 6: Episode 10 | Spiritual Freedom
Season 6: Episode 9 | Invitation to Recalibrate
Season 6: Episode 8 | Space for Discernment
Season 6: Episode 7 | Relinquishing False Self Patterns
Season 6: Episode 6 | Letting Go of Your Grip
Season 6: Episode 5 | Sweet Hours of Prayer
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