Everyday Justice

Just as my husband created this blog “Everday Liturgy” to write about acts of worship for the other six days of the week, Julie Clawson has written a book “Everday Justice” focusing on everyday choices that we make that impact our brothers and sisters around the globe. Throughout the book Julie uses very blunt language about our habits of consumption and desire and how those choices have detrimental and catastrophic effects on human lives and human spirits in areas and countries we hear very little about. It is very convenient to exist with blinders on and ears plugged to the human suffering that allows us to desire and purchase items for literally dirt cheap.

It is evident that Julie has done extensive research and also transformed her life and habits to write with not only conviction but evidence from her own life that awareness can lead to the transformation of one’s economic life. She focuses on these items to bring her point across: coffee, chocolate, clothing, general food, gasoline, waste disposal, and debt. She uses these items as topics to segway into a conversation with the reader concerning how we view our consumptive habits and form our general ideas about manufacturing, domestic products, national debt, trade, international exchange, and personal desire. After reading the book you will find yourself, if nothing else, more aware the foundation of our global economy: as cheap a product as possible with complete disregard for the hands that created or harvested it. Being aware is the first step, and Julie leaves no room for excuses after reading this book.

The second step is application in your own life and Julie does a fabulous job providing links and a wealth of information that shows you how to make wise choices in our daily consumptive decisions. It is easy to think or say “my decisions mean nothing on a global scale?” I urge you to resist that temptation and walk with Julie through Everday Justice to find practical ways that you can transform your economic thinking from everyday desire to everyday justice.

Book Info:

Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices
Julie Clawson
InterVarsity Press
$10.88 (Amazon)