Poverty

Julie Polter 4-01-2007
Individual efforts and social responsibility go hand-in-hand.
Aseem Shrivastava 2-01-2007
How do we ignore the poor? Let me count the ways.
Dr. Paul Sherry 2-01-2007

A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

Robert M. Franklin 1-01-2007

If preachers are preoccupied with pursuing the life of conscpicuous consumption and preaching a "prosperity gospel," then poor people are in big trouble.

Jim Wallis 12-01-2006
Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor.
Robert Roth 9-01-2006
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for October.
Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
Ten years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, economic injustice, HIV/AIDS, and poverty stand in the way of real reconciliation - and present daunting challenges for the South African church.
Ivy George 6-01-2006
The First World becomes a one-way destination point for children from the global South.

Complete with play money, appliance cards, and transportation passes, the Community Action Poverty Simulation is much like a role play or board game.

Rose Marie Berger 6-01-2006

World Peace. A new Internet service provider, Peacenik.co.uk, will raise money for peacemakers working in conflict zones around the world.

Fearful of harsh border enforcement legislation and trapped in poverty, many immigrants turn to churches for help.

Jim Wallis 4-01-2006
Would Jesus come to Davos if he were invited?
Donovan Jacobs 4-01-2006
Hollywood shows little respect for working-class and poor people.
Wanda Fries 4-01-2006

The poor are with you always—

Jim Wallis 2-01-2006
'Have they no shame?' was a frequent response.
Duane Shank 2-01-2006
Poverty solutions that transcend ideology.
James Ferguson 12-01-2005
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

Atlanta’s city council passed a controversial bill in August banning panhandling within a “tourist triangle” that covers most of the central business district.

Debayani Kar 12-01-2005
The U.N. World Summit comes up short.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2005
The suffering and salvation of New Orleans.