this morning I spoke about what is worth fighting for. I suggested that we need to be reading, listening, thinking, talking - engaging with the hurting world that we live in:
some of the issues that I mentioned are here: choose one and see where it leads...
violence against women and children
article by Mari Theunissen
Problems with sex education in SA
Statistics on the POWA (People against Woman Abuse) website (South Africa)
Global Stats
HIV-Aids
AVERT - website on HIV-Aids
poverty
Fraud and Financial misconduct in government
Gini index of countries - UNDP 2006 figures
Countries with the greatest inequality
xenophobia
Article on "amakwerekwere" by Carolyn Dempster
Jesus said: "I have not come to bring peace on this earth - but rather division" (Luke 12:51) I'm choosing to interpret these words to mean that the values that he is FOR, will confront and challenge us where out lives reflect the absence of those values...
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