In our end of January episode, Brandon Stiver is walking through a few current issues as well as a Bible word study that offers a more robust understanding of what it means to do justice and how looking at the word in the Septuagint underscores the inextricable connection to to righteousness. Brandon welcomes Spencer Reeves to the show to share what the team at Child Hope International is seeing in the midst of the conflict within Haiti which has displaced more people than at any other point in the country’s history. Lastly, we revisit a conversation we had with Medard Ngueita earlier this month and how to understand the sweeping executive actions by President Trump that has suspended refugee resettlement, canceled legal asylum seeking and pausing USAID support globally.

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Conversation Notes

• 1:45 - We talk about justice all the time, but what does it mean? Jump into this Bible study on the Greek word dikaiosunne and how it offers a more robust understanding of justice.
• 21:20 - Spencer Reeves joins the show to help us understand the ongoing conflict and large scale displacement of children and families in Haiti. He helps us make sense of a current news report that Brandon pulls from The Guardian (linked below).
• 37:05 - Reviewing the executive actions from President Trump that are impacting how the US engages the global poor and those that are fleeing violence.

 

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