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FREE TRAINING Top 10 Social Justice Videos Videos to get people thinking about social issues. by Ryan Hamm | posted May 23, 2007

Oftentimes, we want to address social justice issues, but we don't quite know where to start. No one disagrees that the church ought to be doing something to combat poverty, become peacemakers, help the homeless, and feed the hungry. Our methods and philosophies might differ, but the command to "clothe the naked and feed the hungry" is pretty clearly given throughout Scripture.
Visual media is a great place to introduce these topics. Putting a human face on worldwide suffering and pain is sometimes a productive way to get people to start thinking about social issues. Projecting a bunch of statistics on the screen about how many people are dying on a daily basis in Zambia because of AIDS is important (and necessary), but a visual complement showing actual people with AIDS and how the church can mobilize to assist them can stick the statistic into peoples' heads.
Here at FaithVisuals.com, we think it's extraordinarily important for the church to be involved in social justice issues. The following are the top ten videos available (in no particular order) from FaithVisuals.com that will start these important conversations:
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