Topic
Compassion
Mercy-Full Nurse
Charlotte Thrall provides free medical care to Phoenix's poor and undocumented immigrants.
September 19, 2012
A Senior Moment
The elderly population is steadily growing and will be for years. How some ministries are embracing the challenge.
December 21, 2011
Wasted Charity
Why the 'compassion industry' is not helping the poor. A review of 'Toxic Charity'
November 11, 2011
Say No to Negative Talk about Hispanic Americans
Christian discussion about topics like Rick Perry's tuition stance must include both compassion and justice.
October 11, 2011
Max Lucado on Compassion: The Best Apologetic
The San Antonio pastor and author explains why he focuses on poverty in his latest book.
October 21, 2010
210 Million Reasons to Adopt
Haiti's devastating quake reminds us that orphans matter to God.
April 7, 2010
Strong on Zeal, Thin in Knowledge
Lessons from Haiti's arrest of American Christians trying to take children out of the country.
February 3, 2010
Modern-Day Lepers
Churches try to balance grace and accountability toward sex offenders.
December 3, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor: 'I Feel Your Pain'
Why the new judge's empathy—extended to more than just Latina women—will serve the Supreme Court well.
June 1, 2009
What to Do with the Stranger?
Two evangelicals argue for more generous immigration policies.
May 11, 2009
HIV Is Incurable, So Don't Stop Caring
Recent research has changed the AIDS headlines, but that shouldn't matter to the church.
June 16, 2008
Compassionate Conservatives
Study: Religious people give more than secular, even to nonreligious charities.
January 23, 2007
'They Know We Are Christians' 
Lebanese Christian compassion impresses Muslims during bloody conflict.
September 28, 2006
Giving Patterns Reveal Increasing Focus on Those 'Worthy' of Compassion
Charities must now frame issues so that donors believe they are giving to innocent victims.
September 12, 2005
Raising the Compassion Bar
How 575 suburban teens underwrote a medical clinic, schoolhouse, and a year's supply of food for a village in Zambia—with money to spare.
August 10, 2005
Pope Saw His Final Pain as Public Suffering
John Paul II embodied the "culture of life."
April 5, 2005
Faith-based, Results-focused
Jim Towey says Bush will push hard for compassion initiative in second term.
January 20, 2005
Compassionate in War, Christian in Vision
The man behind the Geneva Conventions knew the heights of success and the depths of failure
December 1, 2004
Slaughter of the Innocents, 2004
The Netherlands celebrates Christmas by reenacting Herod.
December 1, 2004
Life with Dignity
Let's not be too eager to pull the plug on our fellow image-bearers.
August 1, 2004
Banning Gay Marriage Is Not The Answer
Legal actions aren't loving if they're all we do, says the author of Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would .
August 1, 2004
Have We Become Too Busy With Death?
As 4,900 people die each day from AIDS, African Christians ask themselves:
February 7, 2000
The Science of Compassion
Empirically speaking, does the experience of compassion toward one person measurably affect our actions and attitudes toward other people? (David DeSteno, The New York Times)
Highly Religious People Less Motivated By Compassion Than Non-Believers
People who are more religious "ground their generosity less in emotion, and more in other factors such as doctrine, a communal identity, or reputational concerns." (Business Insider)
To the extreme: Ending Poverty
Compassion International, a Christian nonprofit based on Voyager Parkway, announced last week that it is working with nine other international nonprofits to — get this — eliminate extreme poverty worldwide by 2035 (Colorado Springs Independent)
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