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Turning ‘a Miracle’ into Long-Haul Help for the Homeless

Taylor Berglund

A North Carolina nonprofit is thinking in decades, not days, about sustainable, affordable housing.

The Prosperity Gospel of Comfortable College Grads

It’s easy to see the errors of health-and-wealth grifters. But a subtler addition to the gospel misleads many believers.

Christian Devotion Does Not Undermine Christian Charity

Brett Vanderzee

When Christians neglect the poor and oppressed, it’s not because we love Jesus too much but because we love him too little.

I Trained to Monitor ICE but Found Myself Feeding the Hungry

Elizabeth Berget

Here in Minneapolis, our immigrant neighbors are scared. Local churches like mine are working to meet their needs.

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Government Shutdown Deepens Hunger Crisis

When paychecks and SNAP distributions stop, the food pantry line grows.

How to Do Redemptive Welfare Reform

Rachel Ferguson

Warm feelings about nice-sounding programs aren’t enough. Genuinely transformative efforts are long, slow, and local.

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When a Church Is Not a Church

Warren Cole Smith

More ministries call themselves churches or associations of churches to avoid disclosure requirements.

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Donated Clothes Still Being Sorted in Appalachia

Isaac Wood in Tennessee

Six months after Hurricane Helene, the flood of fast fashion has yet to recede.

Guilt and Sorrow and Obedience and Love

My Christmastime charity is small, insufficient, and muddled in motive. It is also what I can and must do.

Must Social Service Providers Nix Their Faith to Receive Federal Funds?

Carl H. Esbeck

Rather than follow the equal protections secured in Supreme Court decisions, the Biden administration opted for a complicated and soul-killing alternative.

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