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To Act Justly, Love Tenderly, Walk Humbly: An Agenda for Ministers is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, a respected Old Testament scholar, psychologist, and religious educator come together to reflect on the three elements of Micah 6:8. How do the Scriptures require us to respond to the problems of the real world? How can we maintain love in our ministrations to others? How can we speak with real authority while still keeping our humility? The book is geared to assist believers to see...

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Micah 6:8 is commonly recognized as a very peculiar and precious summary of the demands of God mediated through the eighth century prophets. In this form, the expectations of God are not general norms (as, for example, natural law) but they are specific expectations placed on God’s covenant partner. In this well-known triad of expectations, it is no doubt important that the first element is to do justice. In biblical faith, the doing of justice
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