Advent

In addition to Advent Conspiracy mentioned previously, Christian Peace Witness lists a number of resources for the season, including:

Advent Coloring Book
NRCAT Resources
Advent Prayer
Daily Reflections from Pax Christi
Prayer for the UN
Christmas Eve Prayer
Human Rights Day (Dec. 10) resources from Presbyterian Church USA.

Keep checking the CPW site for info regarding regional events in 2010. Based on our [...]

Friday’s Online Potpourri

Looking for something to read this weekend? These are noteworthy:
SDA World

Make Poverty Personal (my review at Adventist Today) 
Treasurer, a native son, dismisses a poverty mindset in West-Central Africa (Ansel Oliver, ANN)
Maranatha marks 40 years of church, school construction worldwide (Megan Brauner, ANN)
Adventist global campaign against domestic violence launched in three world territories (Nadia [...]

Web Roundup

SDA Articles/Posts
ONE Sabbath Campaign (Doug Morgan, Peace Messenger, 19 Sep 09)
The ONE Sabbath campaign launched on September 16 with the purpose of mobilizing people of faith to address the issue of extreme poverty and preventable diseases.  Find out more from the clip below and at www.ONE.org/ONESabbath.
T.R.M. Howard – Adventist Physician and Civil Rights Activist (Doug [...]

Training: Community Organizing

Monte Sahlin submitted the following announcement about community organizing training that he will be offering in the spring. Sounds excellent. –Jeff

I have just started the sixth year of teaching for the Tony Campolo Graduate School at Eastern University in the M.A. in Urban Studies program. Each fall I teach a course in Community Organizing. In [...]

Social Entrepreneurship

The Compassion in Politics blog consistently delivers useful and engaging material on a range of social justice issues. For our readers who are active in social entrepreneurship or would like to be, check out these two quality posts:

Social Entrepreneurship Syllabus Sampler and Bibliography
Social Entrepreneurship Degree Programs
Social Business Plan for Social Entrepreneurs
MORE

Do any of our higher ed institutions offer [...]