Pisteuomen - πιστευομεν - T. Michael W. Halcomb

The purpose of this post is to remind people to use whatever means they have to fight against the injustice that characterizes so many parts of this world. As we look around today, we see so much injustice, suffering, pain, cheating, usury, war, hatred and myriad ills. Really, we can be so overwhelmed by it all that we think "There's nothing I can do to change things". However, there is something you can do: Use your voice. In addition to speaking out loud, one way to do that is to blog. You can raise awareness of human rights issues through blogging. For me, while I do not use Pisteuomen specifically as a platform for dealing with human rights issues, I do use it to raise awareness of how to think theologically and ethically about numerous human rights and civil issues that confront us. Lately, I have been blogging about adoption. Certainly, with millions of orphans the world over, this is an issue that needs more attention drawn to it. There are children being raped, ab...

You will notice that I have created a new badge for Pisteuomen. Actually, it is more of a banner to raise awareness for the human rights event set up for 5.15.08. You can find out more about this at: http://unite.blogcatalog.com/ . In short, this is a call for bloggers everywhere to write about relevant human rights issues (there is a list they offer). I will be doing this from a more biblical/theological perspective. Get the news out and participate. To sign up (officially) visit the addy above.