Justice in Everyday Life, a Lay Servant Ministries advanced course, takes an in-depth look at the Social Principles of The United Methodist Church — the church's attempt to speak on contemporary issues with which it is confronted today. The book covers topics such as the following: Natural World, Social Community, Economic Community, Political Community, Biblical Foundations of the Social Principles, and Teaching the Social Principles. It is not only for Lay Servants but is for anyone interested in studying the Social Principles in greater detail. The Participant's Book, Social Principles of the UMC 2013-2016 is available through Cokesbury.

WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM? DOES IT MAT TER IF YOUR COFFEE IS FAIR TRADE OR NOT? It matters - more than you might think. Julie Clawson takes us on a tour of everyday life and shows how our ordinary lifestyle choices have big implications for justice around the world. She unpacks how we get our food and clothing and shows us the surprising costs of consumer waste. How we live can make a difference not only for our own health but also for the well-being of people across the globe. The more sustainable our lifestyle, the more just our world will be. Everyday justice is one way of loving God and loving our neighbors. So don't panic. We can live more ethically, through the little and big decisions we make every day. Find out how.

This critical anthology edited by Howard Zinn covers the reality of justice, which has always stood in sharp contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the police, the courts, prisons, housing, work, health, schools, and popular struggle, Justice in Everyday Life includes classic essays on the nature of law and order.*BR**BR*Justice in Everyday Life is part of a seven volume Radical sixties series which includes:*BR**BR*1. SNCC: The New Abolitionists*BR**BR*2. The Southern Mystique*BR**BR*3. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal*BR**BR*4. Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order*BR**BR*5. Postwar America: 1945 - 1971*BR**BR*6. Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works*BR**BR*7. Failure To Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

This book contains essays in honour of Melvin J. Lerner, a pioneer in the psychological study of justice. The contributors to this volume are internationally renowned scholars from psychology, business, and law. They examine the role of justice motivation in a wide variety of contexts, including workplace violence, affirmative action programs, helping or harming innocent victims and how people react to their own fate. Contributors explore fundamental issues such as whether people's interest in justice is motivated by self-interest or a genuine concern for the welfare of others, when and why people feel a need to punish transgressors, how a concern for justice emerges during the development of societies and individuals, and the relation of justice motivation to moral motivation. How an understanding of justice motivation can contribute to the amelioration of major social problems is also examined.

Wants to stop judicial cruelty and police brutality and political hysteria which puts innocent people in prison. His writing gets its force from his profound commitment to people who are victims of injustice. He is unafraid to point to the F.B.I., the Justice Department, ambitious district attorneys, malevolent judges, and a craven Congress that passes legislation destructive of the Bill of Rights. [William Zinn Introduction].

This book describes how a concern for justice affects people's judgements and behaviours.