Walking on Two Feet

In our faith-based commitment to seek justice, we need two feet to build the "kin"-dom of God:

• Direct Service: helping people survive their present crisis
• Social Change: changing structures to address social problems

Check out Two Feet for examples of both. The lists are not all-inclusive.

Direct Service is usually very rewarding, results are more immediate, and we can feel like heroes.

Social Change is more challenging for most of us because of the entrenched power structures involved, because it is harder to see the results of our labors, and because it calls us to change -- our ways of seeing and naming, our beliefs, our lifestyles, and so on.

Added November 2005.