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Join the discussion on Refuse To Do Nothing or find a link to buy a copy here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I serve on the board of directors of All Things New<\/a>. All Things New is dedicated to helping women come out of sex slavery, which ranges from trafficking to prostitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That position brings me face to face with the reality of what we are doing to our women and children in the name of \u201cvictimless crimes.\u201d It has made me aware of how our culture glorifies pimps, excuses johns and victimizes the women and children these predators use and degrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Refuse To Do Nothing<\/em> was written by two women, Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim<\/strong>, who had heard similar stories and found that they had to \u201crefuse to do nothing\u201d about the suffering present-day slavery wreaks on both the victims and the victimizers.<\/p>\n

I recommend this well-researched book. Instead of just telling us how horrible the problem of present-day slavery is, the book gives simple, do-able ideas for actions that ordinary people can take to help in the fight to end it. <\/strong>There is nothing over the top in any of the ideas these women provide. Each of them is simple, easy to do and, if enough of us do them, effective.<\/p>\n

Slavery ended in Great Britain and America largely as a result of Christians, particularly Christian women, who understood the Gospel claim that every human being is beloved of God. They could not abide the contradiction of Christian people owning and using other human beings as chattel.<\/p>\n

That understanding is just as true today as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries. Then as now, slavery was big business. Avarice and sloth fueled slavery just as avarice, sloth and lust fuel it today.<\/p>\n

The idea that prostituted women and children are somehow less than fully human is the basic philosophical underpinning of sex trafficking and prostitution in our world today. The authors of this book rightly identify that sex slavery would go away if men stopped buying women and children. I think that most men would stop buying women and children if they saw what they were really doing.<\/p>\n

It is so easy for any one of us to become someone else\u2019s nightmare. All we need to do is subscribe to the world\u2019s opinion that there are human beings who are less than human and we may do to them what we please with no moral harm to ourselves.<\/p>\n

However, this idea of the disposable human is entirely opposed to the message of the Gospels. It refutes the meaning of Calvary, when Our Lord died for each one of us. There can be no worthless people to anyone who truly believes the Gospels of Christ.<\/p>\n

We have an obligation to the God Who made us to treat one another as fully human. When we do less than this, we separate ourselves from Him in a profound and deeply sinful manner.<\/p>\n

I recommend Refuse To Do Nothing<\/em> to everyone who has a heart for the Gospel value of human life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"