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    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)
    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)
    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)
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    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)

    By Jim Wallis

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    The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies highlight the hazardous working conditions for much of the world's population. Are inexpensive clothes and the latest iPhone worth it?

    When we think of the individuals who make our lives work as our neighbors--crossing cultural, racial, religious, regional, and tribal boundaries--it might cause us to change how we do business. All of God's children are our neighbors, says Jim Wallis, a radical concept that is essential to the common good in our increasingly globalized culture. He suggests making "Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good" to help improve things from your corner of the world.

    This is a selection from The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 19, 2013
    ISBN9781441245977
    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)
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    Jim Wallis

    Jim Wallis is the author of the New York Times bestseller God's Politics, which electrified Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics by offering an alternative voice. Wallis is a leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today, the author of eight books, and the founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network. He is a public theologian, an internationally renowned speaker and preacher, a faith-based activist, husband, and father to two young boys, and a Little League baseball coach.

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      This book only deserves one star because it's not really about "Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone." There are perhaps two sentences about that topic in the whole book. There are lots of other things discussed and many generalities and platitudes that relate to the subject but nothing concrete. Most of the e-shorts I've read have been pretty good but this one really fails to live up to the possibilities of its title.

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    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts) - Jim Wallis

    © 2013 by Jim Wallis

    Published by Brazos Press

    a division of Baker Publishing Group

    P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516–6287

    www.brazospress.com

    Excerpted from On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good

    Ebook edition created 2013

    ISBN 978-1-4412-4597-7

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

    Unless noted otherwise, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

    Scripture quotations marked Message are from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson, copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

    Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    Copyright Page

    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone

    Epilogue: Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good

    Notes

    About the Author

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    Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone

    I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road I said to my wife, I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable. It’s a winding, meandering road. It’s really conducive for ambushing. . . . That’s a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the Bloody Pass. And you know, it’s possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it’s possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure.

    And so the first question that the priest asked, the first question that the Levite asked was, If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

    —Martin Luther King Jr.[1]

    Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

    —Martin Luther King Jr.[2]

    As a nation and as a people, as a home, as a family, we’ve made a lot of progress—we’ve come a distance. But we’re still not there. We have not yet created the beloved community. We have not come to that point where we recognize the dignity and the worth of every human being. It is still a struggle. . . . We still have a distance to go before we create one family, one house—the American house.

    —Representative John Lewis, Georgia[3]

    Almost everybody knows the story of the Good Samaritan, and how Jesus told it to answer a question somebody had asked him: Who is my neighbor? That is always a good question. But we need to ask it in the right context. Helping a man in need by the side of a dangerous road was the example Jesus used to show who our neighbor is and how to help him or her. Who is our neighbor? In our increasingly connected global world, this ancient moral question takes on a whole new context. What does it mean for the Good Samaritan to go global?

    The Lawyer’s Question

    Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. Teacher, he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the law? What do you read there? He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all

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