Journey toward justice: personal encounters in the global south

Part 1. Awakening. Two awakening experiences

An evening in Amman

Questions about starting from the wronged

One difference that starting from the wronged made

Another difference that starting from the wronged made

Part 2. Justice and rights. Opposition to rights-talk

What are rights?

Rights grounded in worth

Why rights-talk is important

Is rights-talk for expressing possessive individualism?

Part 3. Justice in scripture. Natural rights in three Church Fathers

Justice in the Old Testament

On the claim that justice is supplanted in the New Testament

Justice in the New Testament

On English translations of the New Testament

More about justice in the New Testament

Justice and love

Justice, love, and shalom

Does scripture imply a right order conception of justice?

Part 4. Righting injustice. Human rights

Six days in South Africa

Art in the struggle to right injustice

On the blocking of empathy and the hardening of hearts

The structure of social justice movements

Part 5. Just punishment. A visit to Honduras

St. Paul's rejection of retributive punishment

What Paul said about the task and authority of the state

Justice, forgiveness, and punishment

Part 6. Beauty, hope, and justice. Justice and beauty

Hope

Recap.