Abu Ghraib, 35
accountability, described, 64–65. See also privilege and accountability
accountability and wellbeing of all, 115
action, importance of, 94
action, task of, 65–67
actions, campaigns, relief efforts, 30
Adam and Eve, 54, 67n5
agapē, 24, 44, 64
agriculture, community-supported, 100
Alexander, Michelle, 77
aloneness, God’s plan and, 54
altruism, 101
ambiguity, moral, 35
Americans with Disabilities Act, 79
Amoateng, Alice, 98
Anathoth Community Garden, 107–8
Appiah, Kwame, 11
authority and solidarity, use of, 60–61
aversive racism, 80–81
axioms, middle, 49–50
Babylonian exile and return, 83–85
Bahnson, Fred, 107
banks, community, 97
bargain shopping, 96
barter economies, 102
base Christian communities (BCC), 27–28
behavior, personal, 2, 94
belief systems, understanding different, 62
beneficiaries of the status quo, 63, 114
Bible on charity, the, 43
Bible on slavery, the, 76
big-box retailers, power of, 39, 96–97
biodynamic farming, 112
blacks/slaves, nature of, 77
blessings and privilege, 38, 45, 113
Boff, Leonardo, 27
brotherhood, 17–19, 62
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), 103
buying power, 39
campaigns, relief efforts, actions, 30
Cannon, Katie, 76
capitalism: assumptions of, 112; emergence of, 4, 22; human nature and, 55; oppression and poverty, 23, 29; policies that protect, 87; Pope Jon Paul II on, 26; solidarity and, 22
Catholic Church, Roman, 24–27, 75–76
causes of social problems, root, xiv
Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, 105–9
CEO incomes, 87
change, capacity for, 46
change, engaging in structural social, 11–12
change, foundations for, 2
change of moral habits, 34
charity: Biblical responses and, 43; disasters responses and call for, 42–43; mutuality and, 41; social justice vs., xi, 11–12, 25–26, 44–46, 58–59, 116
cheap products, 96
China and India, development of, 56
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 79
Christian imperialism and economic prosperity, 75–76
Christian Socialist movement, 24
Christianity, foundation of, 118
Christians, poverty and response of, xiii–xiv
Christians and brotherhood, 17–19
Christians and how to live faithfully in the world, 12–13
church of the poor, 27
churches: globalization and involvement of, 113–14; isolation of, 64; micro-credit lending, 97–98; moral education and, 12; relationships between churches, 109; responses to Industrial Revolution, 24; responsible investments by, 96
civil rights laws, 79
class, race, gender, 38–39, 70–71
class in ancient Israel, 58
climate change, 6–7, 44, 55–57, 81
co-ops, worker, 100
Cold War, political divisions of, 26
collective economies, 102
collectivism, Marxist, 26
colonial patterns of superiority, 76
colonies of North America, 75
colorblindness in the U.S.A., 77
comfort vs. service, a life of, 114
common good, 26
communism, 23, 99
communities of justice, 61
communities of solidarity, creating, 104–9
community banks, 97
community gardens, 107
community investing, 97
compassion and economic theories, 7–8
complicity, personal, 2, 8–10, 85–86, 88, 114, 116, 119
Comte, Auguste, 20, 24
Conference of Latin American Bishops, 27
conflict transformation and religion, 12
conquest theology, 75
consumer behavior, 1–2, 56, 65–66, 94–95
consumer economies and cultures, 87
consumerism, lure of, 112
consumption of resources, 1, 55
context and individual responsibility, 61
continuum of solidarity, 33
control, relinquishing, 118
cooperative businesses, 102
Council of Nicea, 18
creation, solidarity ethic and God’s, 41, 57, 115, 117
creation stories, 54, 67n5
critical social theory, 10–11, 15n19
currencies, local, 100
Davis, David Brion, 77
decision making, gender differences in, 55
decision making, moral, 94
democracy, solidarity and social, 23
development of the “third” world, 3–5
Deysi, story of, xi–xii
differences: building relationships across, 11, 83, 89, 115; honoring, 29, 62–64; maintenance of, 63; sacred and, the, 53; transformation and understanding, 60
disadvantage as individual inadequacies, 73
disasters, responses to, 42–43
discount stores, 96
divine, ultimate reality of the, 53
divine and humankind, relationship between, 54–55
Dovidio, John, 80
Dube, Musa, 65
Durkheim, Émile, 20–21, 24
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