The layperson’s call to social justice and how to respond faithfully
Christians are called and anointed to bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, and freedom to the oppressed.
In The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice, on sale May 9 from Fortress Press, The Naming Project founding director, VP of GLAAD Media Institute, and author Ross Murray helps Christians explore their individual callings to justice and ways to 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.
“The Everyday Advocate is illuminating. It breaks the mold for what we expect Christian advocacy to look like and comes at a critical time for the progressive movement,” said Brian Derrick, political strategist and founder of Oath Advising.
Murray builds on two questions: 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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About the Author
Ross Murray is the founding director of The Naming Project, a faith-based youth ministry and summer camp for LGBTQ youth and their allies. He has worked with youth and families in a variety of settings and presented LGBTQ youth ministry around the world.In his day job, Ross is vice president at the GLAAD Media Institute, providing activist, spokesperson, and media-engagement training and education for LGBTQ community members, corporations, and advocacy organizations desiring to accelerate acceptance for the LGBTQ community. Ross is an ordained deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with a specific calling to advocate for LGBTQ people and to bridge LGBTQ and faith communities. He is a producer for the Yass Jesus podcast, a faith and sexuality affirming podcast that believes you don’t have to pick between gay and God.
The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice
by Ross Murray | 9781506485430 | US $22.99 | Paperback | 213 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | Publication Date: May 9, 2023
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