Consider one of history’s most remarkable transformations: In 1800, 90% of humanity lived in subsistence poverty. Today, that figure has flipped, and according to the United Nations Development...
Jesus calls us to engage the poor, not just with resources, but with our lives. A recent IFC survey found 63 percent of Protestant evangelicals want to demonstrate...
I remember the first time I saw real poverty. It was the early 1970s, so I would have been seven or eight years old. Flipping through a copy...
According to recent data, approximately $74.5 billion is donated to the American church annually, yet America is still plagued with homelessness, poverty, poor education systems, inadequate health care,...
In my previous blog posts, I have explained two important principles Christians have used in fighting poverty: the voluntary principle and the market. We looked at the stories...
In alleviating poverty, we often talk about the need for solutions on the local and individual level. But what does this look like in reality? In today’s...
How can Christians learn from history to best serve the poor? The competing paradigms within evangelical thought on poverty alleviation can best be distinguished by the voluntary principle...
Recently, Pastor Isaiah, our DML leader in Burundi who was visiting us in Grand Rapids, shared more about the impact of forty years of war in Burundi. He...
The poor will always be with us, but such a sobering reality does not free us from an obligation to work to alleviate the ravages of poverty. On...
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