Recommended Reading
‘Back to School’ Reading!
Grab a good book and come back to reality with Micah Challenge’s recommended reading guide!
Match of the Day: reflections on an unfair football match
Today I refereed a football match. It was a five-a-side game and was the most one-sided match I have ever refereed. The team in blue scored at a rate of one goal every thirty seconds for the first two minutes. Of course it was meant to be a one-sided match as it was part of the ‘Blow the Whistle’ campaign organised by the Micah Challenge…
Lessons from M.L. King Jr.
M.L. King Jr. led a people in a time and in a nation that faced colossal changes. Their struggle, known as ‘the civil rights movement’, shows that a movement of people who are willing to face up to injustice and pay the price can bring about a seismic shift in their time, affecting moral, social, historical, economic, spiritual and legal dynamics in society…
Lessons from William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce devoted much of his life’s work to the abolition of the slave trade and played a key role in bringing to an end the suffering of 40 000 slaves transported by British ships each year. Like Wilberforce, we too have the opportunity to speak out against the injustices that pervade our society…
Global Poverty is a Sin
Everyone knows that the world is not as it should be. When we hear the stories of lives broken by poverty and look at the statistics about global inequality we know that the world is deep in trouble. The truth is that our world is sick…
Millennium Development Goals Introduction
These goals – clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted; an end to extreme and senseless poverty – these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals…
Reflections on Poverty
There was once a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus [literally means ‘without help’], covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep…
God is in the slums
Extracts: 54th Annual National Prayer Breakfast
Washington, DC. USA, February 2006
