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The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice
As Christians, we are called and anointed to bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, and freedom to the oppressed. In The Everyday Advocate, Ross Murray helps Christians explore our individual callings to justice and start taking practical steps to live that out.
The Everyday Advocate is for the layperson who feels overwhelmed by the world's troubles and helpless to address them. It is for the person who goes to church, hears the gospel, seeks to apply it to their lives, and yearns to be connected to, or create, a community that amplifies their voice and actions. It is also for pastors and faith leaders who want to help people think through their calling to advocacy and help connect them with the communities that can use their gifts and talents.
Murray builds on two Where is God? And what are we called to do? Viewing every action and phenomenon as theological, he stakes out values and shows readers how to work toward those values. He also distinguishes between direct service and cultural change, discussing the balance between them and acknowledging both are needed.
Drawing on his own experience and exercising his pastoral spirit, Murray encourages readers to discern their own call to advocacy, learn to identify injustices that still reign, and respond faithfully by incorporating big and small actions into their everyday lives.
The Everyday Advocate is for the layperson who feels overwhelmed by the world's troubles and helpless to address them. It is for the person who goes to church, hears the gospel, seeks to apply it to their lives, and yearns to be connected to, or create, a community that amplifies their voice and actions. It is also for pastors and faith leaders who want to help people think through their calling to advocacy and help connect them with the communities that can use their gifts and talents.
Murray builds on two Where is God? And what are we called to do? Viewing every action and phenomenon as theological, he stakes out values and shows readers how to work toward those values. He also distinguishes between direct service and cultural change, discussing the balance between them and acknowledging both are needed.
Drawing on his own experience and exercising his pastoral spirit, Murray encourages readers to discern their own call to advocacy, learn to identify injustices that still reign, and respond faithfully by incorporating big and small actions into their everyday lives.
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225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2023
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May 10, 2023
For those anywhere in your journey to becoming an advocate, ally, or accomplice for LGBTQIA2S+, I highly recommend The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice by Ross Murray. His story is powerful and accessible, and invites us in with relatable, informative stories. The appendices are a set of robust resources. And at the end of each chapter, he provides a series of Reflection and Action prompts. Get yours today!
I find it so refreshing and inspiring to hear a Christian who has walked Ross Murray’s path speak with such clear faith and conviction, encouraging others who have misinterpreted or accepted the church’s misinterpretation of scripture to really look closely at what it means to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind” and to truly “love your neighbor as yourself.”
I find it so refreshing and inspiring to hear a Christian who has walked Ross Murray’s path speak with such clear faith and conviction, encouraging others who have misinterpreted or accepted the church’s misinterpretation of scripture to really look closely at what it means to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind” and to truly “love your neighbor as yourself.”
May 9, 2023
The Everyday Advocate is for the layperson who feels overwhelmed by the world's troubles and helpless to address them. It is for the person who goes to church, hears the gospel, seeks to apply it to their lives, and yearns to be connected to, or create, a community that amplifies their voice and actions. It is also for pastors and faith leaders who want to help people think through their calling to advocacy and help connect them with the communities that can use their gifts and talents. This book has a heart behind it that compels you to do something. Anything. To seek what breaks your heart and then guides you into action that makes a difference. I dare you to read this book and continue sitting on your butt!
May 9, 2023
Deacon Murray has gifted us with an eminently readable and very practical guide to living out our calling to serve justice. This book is written from a progressive Christian perspective, but it is still useful for people from other faiths or even people of no faith. In each chapter, he gives us stories, prompts to help fill our beliefs with actions (no "thoughts and prayers" here!), and encouragement to continue on the path to serve social justice and protect the marginalized. If you are a progressive Christian; or even just a progressive person in general or someone who cares about justice; do yourself a favor and get this book.
June 10, 2024
Ross is a friend of a friend and I'm proud to say we're only a few degrees removed. This is an easy-to-follow guide to advocacy for the modern day layman. While a lot of the book was pretty basic advice, I would highly recommend it to anyone who is new or returning to advocacy and looking to learn the ropes. The reflection questions at the end really help the reader to probe deeper, as well.
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