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True Charity
- Doing Them Well By Being With Them First: The Power of Presence in Effective Charity
- Achieving Advantageous Outcomes with Self Assessments
- The Power of Collaboration: Strengthen Your Poverty Alleviation Ministry Together
- Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: A Synopsis
- Respecting Agency and Truth in Relationships
- Five Ways to Improve Children’s Safety at Your Ministry
- A Framework for Flourishing: A Synopsis of When Helping Hurts
- When Social Capital Moves in Next Door: The Best Evidence on Gentrification
- The Maker Versus The Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics
- The Emotional and Mental Health Crisis in Poverty
Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: A Synopsis
If you belong to an American church, chances are you’ve been on a short-term mission trip — or supported one somehow. Helping Without Hurting sheds light on how those trips may cause more harm than good and offers practical tips on how to effectively support existing congregations in low-income communities.
A Framework for Flourishing: A Synopsis of When Helping Hurts
When Helping Hurts is a rallying cry for the Church that simultaneously convicts and compels. Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert set out to awaken American Christians to the stark contrast between their beach vacations and the grinding poverty in foreign slums.
The Maker Versus The Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics
Economist Jerry Bowyer examines Christ’s teachings on social justice and economics from a biblical and historical perspective, concluding He spoke against redistribution of wealth by those in power.
Is Healing From Childhood Adversity Possible? A Review of the Book Created to Heal.
In a world full of mental health news, Created to Heal offers hope that neuroplasticity — the brain’s capacity to heal — can heal childhood trauma! And it gives caregivers guidance on how to foster resilience and support families.
The Power of Unconditional Love: A Synopsis of Same Kind of Different As Me
Same Kind of Different As Me tells the true story of a wealthy art dealer and a homeless drifter’s unlikely but beautiful friendship that would last a lifetime.
Is the Pursuit of Human Flourishing Scriptural?
Dr. Jonathan Pennington explores the Biblical roots of human flourishing, showing its intertwined nature with God’s redemptive plan through Jesus Christ.