Not quite three weeks ago we posted Socialism vs. Capitalism. It’s a hot topic, not to mention important, and the post has garnered lots of hits. So we are advancing the release of the video version in an effort to harness this interest and push the message out even further.
Indian scholar and DNA friend Vishal Mangalwadi was recently interviewed by a German-language publication about Western assistance to Africa. We are happy to point our readers to this remarkable Q&A. ~ A great deal of development aid has already been provided in Africa. Why does nothing seem to change? Finland
You can buy 125 pounds of iron for $5. But that value goes up a bunch depending on how the iron is developed. Darrow unpacks this truth in his February 14 post, “The Power of Human Imagination.” Just click the title in the image below (or click here) to read
Human imagination is clearly implied in God’s mandate to Adam and Eve to develop the creation out of the raw materials He provided. And human imagination has been at work ever since. Note the quotation about a bar of iron. The value of an item is not necessarily found in
Jesus feeds the multitude, as painted by Giovanni Lanfranco God’s word is wonderful. Over the years I have come to see that it is inexhaustible in its breadth (it is the “owner’s manual”) and its depth (you can read the same passage hundreds of times over the years and always
Why are some people and nations rich and others poor? What is the source of wealth? Most people have the mistaken idea that wealth is “found” in the ground. But if this were the case, the Democratic Republic of the Congo would be fabulously wealthy and Singapore impoverished. But the
Food seems like an unlikely ingredient for cultural transformation (read discipling). But it clearly is. In a time when the Right seems hellbent on raping the planet and the Left is fixated on “climate change” there is a sane middle. There are voices speaking and hands working in their own communities
Overpopulation is often used to describe places like India. Any Westerner visiting India for the first time is struck with the teeming masses of humanity, a seemingly endless sea of people wherever you look. My Indian host, a seminary grad and one of the most gifted Christian leaders I’ve ever
Foreign aid is sometimes doled out like playing cards. How did a nation as smart as the United States ever get taken over by the paradigm that money is the solution? We believe this for our own lives, for the ills and poverty in our own country, and by extension
Dr. Bryant L. Myers, for years a leader in the development arm of World Vision and now a professor of international development at Fuller Seminary, has written a thoughtful piece on development titled: Progressive Pentecostalism, Development, and Christian Development NGOs: A Challenge and an Opportunity. In the executive summary of
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