How to Do Redemptive Welfare Reform
Warm feelings about nice-sounding programs aren’t enough. Genuinely transformative efforts are long, slow, and local.
When Not Helping Hurts
We’ve long preached sustainable development over handouts. The pandemic forces us to change our approach—for now.
Is Your Trip Tourism or Missions?
After years of debate, the line is blurrier than ever.
Should Christians Give Money to Ministries Deep in Debt?
Experts weigh giving to insolvent faith-based organizations.
The Poverty Fighters’ Bible
Six years later, ‘When Helping Hurts’ is still shaking up the church’s approach to charity.
Gleanings: January/February 2015
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our January/February issue).
Not Your Father’s Christian Community Development
How John Perkins’s CCDA has changed to respond to 21st-century realities.
The Heart of Christian Life: Pillars of Hospitality
How to strengthen communities that welcome strangers.
City Shuts Down Church Club
Gang outreach slammed as dangerous business.
How Charity Can Be Toxic, Just in Time for Christmas
Bob Lupton explains how to avoid destroying dignity.