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The Importance of Home

For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.

A Wake Up Call on Poverty

The Census Bureau released new poverty data showing a stunning reversal in economic security over the course of last year, providing a wake up call to America's poverty.

From the Eastern Wash. Legislative Conference: Understanding Poverty

I mentioned at the conference that a common stereotype about Jews is that we’re all wealthy to some degree; the complementary myth, of course, is that there are no poor Jews.

Building Self-Reliance in Buhkaweka, Uganda

Anyone who has planted a seed before knows the feeling of wanting to return and find a huge shade tree growing in the place where it was sown. And in development work, you hope that the tree is also producing enough fruit to feed the entire village!

How can we attack poverty when we are poor ourselves?

True compassion and true sacrifice for others require that we surrender to God's influence over us, which will sustain us when our cheap human versions of those words fail us and we are tempted to put up the barricades and scream, “No more!”

Poverty is much more than a lack of money

In material terms, one man's poverty/need is another man's luxury. But in Matthew 5:3 Jesus speaks about spiritual poverty. This is the far worse poverty, the kind he wants to address in all of us.

Sometimes a vacation stays with you in ways you didn’t expect

Somebody once said, “Don't pray for a solution to a problem unless you are willing to be part of that solution.” For the first time in my life I am beginning to feel that willingness.

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