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Not Your Father's Christian Community Development

Not Your Father's Christian Community Development

How John Perkins's CCDA has changed to respond to 21st-century realities.

For the past three years, I've managed the bookstore at the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) annual conference. Each year I see old friends and make new ones, all the while putting new books into the hands of conference participants. ...

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Rick Dalbey

February 21, 2013  8:15pm

Relocation and wealth redistribution. The two key platforms of the Chinese Maoist revolution in 1949. Use the power of the collective to confront injustice. Reform greedy capitalist banks. “Bring arrogant violence to its knees.” The CCDA. Oh yeah. The headline has it right, Not Your Father's Christian Community Development.

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Howard Pepper

February 21, 2013  1:32pm

It's good to see that, as I'd read it between the lines, CCDA has helped Evangelicals take a deeper look at their theology. In that, perhaps realizing that recent trends such as questioning whether Evangelicals have even comprehended Jesus' Kingdom focus are not necessarily "unbiblical" and ARE fitting with an emphasis toward "the least among" us.

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