Greetings, Quest Students! This will be our project grade for this unit.
Having studied the person of Jesus and the significance of Christ and having studied the mission of the Church, it is time to turn our attention to how this message should shape our world.
Remember, Social Justice is not about helping individual persons. It's about systems, structures, laws and "traditions" that marginalize and persecute whole groups in our society. Social Justice is about being a Community of Disciples.
Consult the rubric for how to succeed in this project. Your comments need to be articulated well. They need to be written well and show engagement with what we're hearing and reading. The best grades will link to images or websites.
I would suggest reading related articles in magazines like Salon.com and National Review. The former is quite liberal in its politics; the latter conservative. In the Church realm you may want to access the website for the U.S. Bishops (Social Justice Issues): http://www.nccbuscc.org/. America magazine is a Jesuit publication and Commonweal as well as Sojourners are respected Catholic magazines. All these would be center-left publications. For a traditionalist perspective, look at The Wanderer.
As you set your sights on the world outside of LA, it is critical to engage the economic, political and social world that you will inhabit and that you will help shape.
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