True Charity
- What’s Justice Got to Do With It? How Justice Works With Charity to Uplift the Poor
- After The Storm: How to Shape Our Mercy Ministries for Long-term Success
- Second Chances: Helping Returning Citizens Reintegrate
- Is Healing From Childhood Adversity Possible? A Review of the Book Created to Heal.
- Is Your Mission Statement B.I.G. Enough?
- How to Locally Support Refugees
- How Do I Truly Help Panhandlers?
- Civil Society Crowded Out in Missouri
- Exchange Models Done Right: Eight Ways to Empower Without Exploiting
- Questions to Ask Before Starting a Supportive Housing Ministry
Charity Is No Part of the Government
Poverty Demands more than Means-Tested Welfare
By James Whitford, published in the Joplin Globe on October 23, 2016. Early one morning, I took a seat on the steps of our mission beside an elderly lady whose […]
Producers Really Are Happier Than Consumers
By James Whitford published in the Joplin Globe March 27, 2016 Recently, after hearing me share that the working poor are happier than the welfare poor, Mark got a job. […]
Index of Economic Freedom
After 50 years of war on poverty, it appears there must be a better solution to helping our struggling neighbors than government funded programs. Recent data supports that people are […]
Bandaging Homelessness Makes it Worse
By James Whitford published in the Joplin Globe November 8, 2015 For 10 years, I practiced wound care. I’ve probed, irrigated, and cut dead tissue out of the nastiest ulcers […]
Old Techniques Good for Today
By James Whitford published in the Joplin Globe Sept 13, 2015 Last month, the Foundation for Government Accountability published a paper titled “SNAP To It: Restoring Work Requirements Will Help […]