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Footings for Children is a curriculum for those who teach children in after-school clubs, Sunday schools, camps, and even home devotionals. It is designed to be adapted and applied in any cultural context, including settings where teaching aids and tools are limited.
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Category Archives: Poverty
Why Wealth is Better Than Riches
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Allan Meltzer (A Welfare State or a Start-up Nation) which raises an issue deeper than tax-code revision and other mechanical differences between welfare states and start-up nations. Mr. Meltzer is speaking to a worldview issue … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Poverty, Worldview
Tagged Allan Meltzer, Poverty, Wall Street Journal, wealth redistribution, welfare, WSJ
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The Visible Results of the Gospel
About ten years ago I began to feel restless about the work of the missionary organization I was part of. To be sure, there was lots to be happy about. We had dedicated missionaries very effective at building relationships in … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Education, Evangelism, Great Commission, Mission, Poverty, Wholism, Worldview
Tagged Gospel, Great Commission, Wholism
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Life Expectancy and the Economic Effect of the Protestant Reformation … Who Knew?
Perhaps few people are aware of the powerful impact the Protest Reformation had on life expectancy in Europe. Prior to the 16th century European Reformation, virtually the entire world was poor including all of Europe. Andrew Bernstein, adjunct professor of … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, History, Poverty
Tagged biblical economics, Development, life expectancy, population, Poverty, Protestant reformation, work ethic
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More Spending, More Doing?
Marvin Olasky, editor of WORLD, recently pointed out that yes, increased charitable giving is essential to attacking poverty, but without the transformation of cultures, money is not enough. In his column, The Promise and the Overpromise, Mr. Olasky referenced one … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Poverty
Tagged discipling nations, Olasky, Poverty, World magazine
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Freedom Born in a Black Tower
My good friend Bryan Barrett recently put me on to a story I had never read: the Tower of the Black Cloister. In this tower, the history of the world turned a profound corner. Most people view the Reformation as … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Culture, Freedom, History, Poverty, Theology
Tagged History, Martin Luther, reformation, Wittenberg door
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Welfare the False and the True: Part I
[Vishal Mangalwadi argues that we have much to learn from a couple of Scots who wanted to care for widows and did something about it. Go here to read his original, unedited post of which the following is a condensation.] Almost 300 years … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Finance, Ideas Shapers, Poverty
Tagged actuarial, free market enterprise, Scottish Widow Fund, welfare
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The Decay of False Ideas
The Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city. That’s a positive progression from God’s perspective. He intends human beings to develop the natural resources He put in the creation. When we do, hungry people are fed, the … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Economic Development, ETW, Poverty, Worldview
Tagged California, David Hanson, Detroit, feral, Poverty, work, Worldview
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One Tract, One Verse and A Village Transformed
The following account is taken from an article by DNA associate Vishal Mangalwadi. Thirty years ago, Yong Am was one of South Korea’s poorest villages. It offered no school for the children and no jobs for the adults. Today, a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cultural Mandate, Development, Discipleship, Economic Development, Poverty
Tagged Poverty, South Korea, work
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
How is poverty related to male “superiority”? Why are 100 million women missing? How are today’s feminists exactly the opposite of the first feminists? These and other questions are addressed in Darrow Miller’s 45-minute presentation entitled, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty, Women, Worldview
Tagged abortion, Feminism, gender roles, gendercide, motherhood, Pro-Life, women
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