Prayer recognises that only the power and goodness of God can restore right relationships to sinful communities. No-one can know everything about complex problems. But everyone can explore one area, for example, which multinational corporations are morally allergenic and deserve boycotts. Knowledge is dangerous. If it is not converted into change, it may harden our hearts.
Choices range from cycling instead of driving, to working with the poor in Nicaragua.
Our love of neighbour must include opposition to oppressive structural evils, wherever they are found. Voting, writing, lobbying and demonstrating are all vital to effecting change. The Greening of Africa. Paul Harrison 1987. Rich Christians in an age of hunger.