CNN: What's the Role of Faith in Fighting Slavery?

It has been a privilege to highlight The CNN Freedom Project, not only because human trafficking (and other injustice issues that are interconnected) is close to my heart, but because in their reporting, they have not shied away from the faith aspect of the fight.  They could have easily looked the other way in this regard and not bothered to report about faith, but they haven't, and for that, I commend them.

As you read the following article by David Batstone (Not for Sale) or when you think about injustice, if you ask yourself the question, "Should I get involved?", I think that you're asking the wrong question.  As people of faith, it is God's call to all of us:

"He has told you, O man, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?"

~Micah 6:8

I believe that the question you should be asking yourself is, "How can I get involved?"  And the best thing is that it doesn't matter what you decide to do - feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, care for the widows and orphans - the one thing that I can guarantee you is that you will meet God there.  We think we do these things to bless others and we find that we leave blessed.  People of faith need to stand up and literally be the hands and feet of Christ right now.

"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house.

God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child

with a virus that will end both their lives.

God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war.

God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives,

and God is with us if we are with them."

~Bono

thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/03/whats-the-role-of-faith-in-fighting-slavery