Today we introduce a new feature to ThinkChristian: e-mail interviews with thoughtful Christians about faith and culture. There are many wise voices we need to hear from in addition to our own writers and readers here at TC, and we’re grateful for their willingness to join our conversation. (We’ll be doing the interviews by e-mail [...]

The locavore trend has recently been getting media attention since First Lady Michelle Obama started an organic vegetable garden in the white house lawn, and enlisted local school children to help out with the planting.  As a busy grad student often cooking for one, I’m not exactly a huge boon to the local veggie economy [...]

In a holiday speech, a leader proclaimed . . .
“If Christ was on Earth today undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers.
“If Christ was on Earth today undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the [...]

I had not heard of this letter before today, but in light of recent happenings with the United States Wall Street it seems extra interesting.
Here’s the first part of the letter:
Read the whole letter and make sure to scroll to the bottom to see the list of signatories.
As the Church of the Lord in what [...]

From the “sobering and upsetting” file: there’s a new book out by investigative reporter Benjamin Skinner that lays out the horrifying prevalence of human slavery today. (In addition to the NPR story, read the excellent reaction and further commentary at On the Square.)
The book (a short excerpt of which you can read at the NPR [...]

Well worth watching. The message of this speech is timeless:

How have you been remembering MLK today?

Today is Human Rights Day.
Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for more information about the purpose of this day.
This is a question I’m going to be asking myself too: what are you doing this advent/Christmas season to help bring about these basic human rights to your neighbors?
(HT: Global Voices Online)

How do you redeem ground that’s been tainted by an evil history? Cathleen Falsani writes about a church in Zanzibar that was constructed on the site of an old slave market. The result is an amazing symbolic statement, made not with costly monuments and elaborate architecture, but with the church’s physical location:
The Anglicans purposely built [...]

Simply Missional pointed me towards this stunning pictorial comparison of what families eat during a week and how much it costs.
Just think about this, the next time you eat out if you ordered a water instead of a coke, then donated the money, you could effectively double the amount of money a Sudanese family in [...]

This comic from ASBO Jesus has been bouncing around my mind for the past few days.

Most people do care about social justice; however, so often our indignation turns into paralysis due to the magnitude of the world’s problems. Personally, I’ve found it much easier to be incensed about how bad off the world is [...]