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Ten years ago Gary Haugen gave a workshop on justice at Urbana, a major student conference on missions, and only a handful of people showed up.  

Now, the author of Good News about Injustice observes, "there's a whole generation of young Christians for whom the Gospel in the absence of justice is just not interesting or compelling or tolerable." Increasingly, mainstream evangelicalism is embracing Haugen’s message: “God has a plan for fighting injustice in the world, and it's us." 

Human trafficking is the world's third largest criminal enterprise, after drugs and weapons. And it’s not all overseas. Sex trafficking–including child rape for profit–haunts nearly every major US city.  

Read The Church on a Justice Mission by Amy Sherman to find out more about what Christians are doing to confront contemporary slavery in their hometowns and around the world, and to advocate for the restoration of healthy systems of public justice that protect the vulnerable.  

"If the poor are not protected by the rule of law,” writes Haugen, “few if any of the other humanitarian investments we make on their behalf will be sustainable. We may provide better food, shelter, or medicines, but there will always be another bully to take them away."