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Among all the congratulations for the birth of Lily Joy and questions about how our family's adjusting, we've received a variety of inquiries regarding other matters.  One missions team member of a partner congregation shared how a college student, returning from a spring of discipleship in an InterVarsity chapter, presented Carl Ellis' 4-paned window of marginalization with the young adults.  AND the missions team member wanted to know more about Ellis' work.  Why didn't the missions team member just ask the student?  Because the student has already left for a Missions Project with InterVarsity, along with several other collegians from their congregation (who by the way attend a variety of colleges and universities). 

In response to mission team member's interest, I composed an email with the below info (included as I know a number of you are interested in addressing relational/systemic marginalization). ... Minutes later I received a note stating thanks Tom - I knew you'd know and a testimony to God's work through InterVarsity among the youth of their local congregation, which is returning blessing to their local congregation. Praise be to God and may these opportunities/realities continue to multiply! 

Carl Ellis, an InterVarsity alum, has a number of helpful materials regarding righteousness/justice, including the InterVarsity Press' Free at Last? The Gospel in the African-American Experience.  On Desiring God, one can download Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, which includes a chapter by Ellis entitled The Sovereignty of God and Ethnic-Based Suffering (begins p.123) and one can find the window of marginalization beginning on p.131. Note:  I'd commend the whole chapter for your prayerful consideration and application.

It appears that Ellis' site Project Joseph is down, but Reflections of a Jazz Theologian is of interest.  I have some notes from some presentations which Ellis gave at an InterVarsity Regional Staff Conference.  If I come across them, I'll pass them along to you.