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Announcing | Freedom Sunday 2012
Not For Sale is urging communities of faith across the world to take action by getting involved in Freedom Sunday next month. Freedom Sunday takes place on February 26th, 2012, coinciding with the...
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“What’s the Role of Faith in Fighting Slavery” by David Batstone
On February 2, faith leaders gathered in the U.S. capital to pray. What difference will it make? What is the role of prayer, worship, and faith in ending social problems that I care about, like...
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Faith Communities Around the World to Celebrate Freedom Sunday
What is it about the contemporary church today that situates it within the movement to end modern-day slavery? Kevin Austin, Not For Sale’s Director of the Abolitionist Faith Community, explains that...
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“Why Worship Is the Best Tool to Abolish Human Trafficking” by Kevin Austin
Every church should have a track and field starting gun. I’m serious. Along with the Bible and the offering trays, the pastor should be ready to whip out the gun and use it at a moments notice. Think...
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Freedom Sunday: Prayer-Filled Smart Activism, by Kevin Austin
Henri Nouwen writes: “Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of...
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5,000 Global Churches Declare Freedom for the Captives
On February 26th, freedom will ring from Bangkok to Managua, Austin to Sydney as thousands of churches around the world mobilize their congregations to take action towards “setting the captives free.”...
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“Why I’m Fasting For Freedom”– by Katie Bergman
“A church that’s lost its voice for justice is a church that’s lost its relevance in the world.” (Richard Stearns, author of The Hole in Our Gospel) As a young girl, I remember listening to...
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Freedom Sunday 2012 | Celebration and Action
Setting the captives free is part of the DNA of the church, according to NFS President Dave Batstone, who is “convinced that the church should be not only involved in, but leading abolitionist work in...
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Freedom Sunday: Results-Producing, World-Changing, Slavery-Ending Social...
Over 5,000 faith communities in more than 100 different countries used worship as a catalyst to transform the world on February 26, participating in Not For Sale’s most powerful global celebration of...
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An Interview With Kevin Austin
Kevin Austin: “We’ve got a negative calling, which is ending modern-day slavery, and a positive calling, which is creating new futures. “In the United States, we eat tomatoes, strawberries, and...
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