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How to Help Those in Need (Without Treating Them Like Beggars)

By Filings on Fri, 11/13/15
Society & Culture
Poverty
Charity
Theology of Work
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“[W]hat if our best efforts to help those in poverty actually drive their poverty deeper?”

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Bert Perry

NewMust read

Fri, 11/13/15

Let us teach a man to fish.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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Steve Newman

NewVery good article

Fri, 11/13/15

Short-term missions in the wrong hands can be the equivalent of eco-tourism for environmentalists. Let’s do more “mission work” locally!

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Related . . .

Topics: Government, Social Justice, Jesus, Poverty
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  • "[T]here is not much discussion of the materialism of those who are poor"
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  • "I'm seeing one-way giving, doing for people what they have the capacity to do for themselves in a way that disempowers them."
  • What is poverty in the United States today?

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