The Advent of Justice

The Advent of Justice was first published in 1993 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the CJL Foundation and Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ). Responding to God's call for love, justice, and stewardship, the CJL Foundation and CPJ have been at the forefront of research and advocacy in areas such as poverty and unemployment, economics, and social justice, aboriginal rights, refugees, energy policy and the environment. The republication of The Advent of Justice celebrates more than 50 years of faithful witness for justice by CJL and CPJ. In this book of reflections, four friends come together to lead us more deeply into Advent as a time of profound hope for the coming of God's good kingdom of shalom while also a time of lament and anguish in the face of injustice. Sylvia Keesmaat is a biblical scholar at the Toronto School of Theology and organic farmer. She is also the co-author (with Brian Walsh) of Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (IVP). Brian Walsh is a Christian Reformed campus minister at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Subversive Christianity 2nd ed. (Wipf and Stock) and Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination (Brazos). Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary, at Roberts Wesleyan College. He is the author of A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (Baker Academic) and The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Brazos). Mark Vander Vennen is the executive director of the Shalem Mental Health Network. He is the co-author (with Bob Goudzwaard and David Van Heemst) of Hope in Troubled Times: A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises (Baker). Willem Hart is a Toronto graphic designer and artist.