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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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14 February 2024

Bruce Crowther and the Fair Trade Triangle

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From the Little Fair Trade Blog, “Bruce Crowther MBE, The Fig Tree, United Kingdom” (August 2012)
The contemporary Fair Trade concept dates back to British Quakers networking with some social activists and Oxford University academics to found the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942. The next year this group incorporated as Oxfam with a driving passion to eradicate poverty everywhere. After the war, the Mennonite Central Committee and the Church of the Brethren found ways…
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16 September 2023

The Holy Spirit in Creation, Justice and Peace

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“A Rocha is a global family of [Christian] conservation organizations working together to live out God’s calling to care for creation and equip others to do likewise.”
One of the great German theologians of the twentieth century, Jürgen Moltmann (b. 1926), published a book in 2019 that neatly summarizes some key themes of his monumental work: The Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril. His 1965 (German edition) groundbreaking book had been on Christian hope: A Theology of Hope. Then among his numerous books, at…
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04 September 2023

Learning from Indigenous Creation Theology (2)

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“The 12th Annual Hunting Moon Pow Wow, hosted by the Forest County Potawatomi, was held from October 14 to 16 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena” (2016)
In the first half of this post, I introduced Native American theologian George E. “Tink” Tinker and used some of the material in his book, American Indian Liberation, to offer us a double reality check: first, the horrors committed by the colonial masters in the Americas, starting with Columbus and stretching the United States’ genocide of the Native populations in…
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25 August 2023

Learning from Indigenous Creation Theology (1)

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“Act of Repentance toward Healing Relationships with Indigenous Peoples,” at the United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla, on April 27, 2012.
This will be a two-part blog post about one Native American theologian (George E. “Tink” Tinker) and his most famous book, American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty. But this is only partially a book review. In the second half I connect some of these thoughts to portions of a paper I just submitted to the journal Missiology. Indigenous peoples,…
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