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 sick receive care, the naked are clothed, children grow, families
Category: Poverty
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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 typical small farmer earns over $60,000 per year and the
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 the World. At a conference at Wilberforce Academy Darrow gave this
Africa and Haiti share much in common. In both places, many people live on less than a dollar a day. Both have had massive foreign assistance, yet both remain impoverished. Corruption, disease, and poverty still dominate this island nation. These are only symptoms of the true problem, however, the consequences
“I get the feeling that if people aren’t ‘Christian – believers in Jesus’ they won’t fit into the Palau plan.” Thus did the director of an “Interfaith Shelter Network for families with children” object to the Season of Service program sponsored by the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association (LPEA). The criticism seems
Some have asked me what books on worldview have been most helpful to me. Those by my late mentor, Francis Schaeffer, helped me to get on the road to thinking worldviewishly–particularly his trilogy Escape from Reason, The God Who Is There, and He Is There and He is Not Silent. Two
Earth, we have a question! The members of the DNA Team Blog were overwhelmed by the response to the blog Gendercide: The War Against Baby Girls. We have been blogging now for a year and a half and we have never had a response like this to our writing. Why?
Kim Moreland is part of Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint staff as one of their lead writers/editors. Last week she wrote an excellent article titled “The Social Gospel and Eternity: The Importance of the Biblical Worldview” and published it on the BreakPoint website. She cites Darrow and I in the article and
John Wood, Pastor of Missional Life at Bethany Community Church in Tempe, Arizona and a long-time friend of the DNA wrote a thoughtful response to Vishal Mangalwadi’s contribution to this blog on January 26 titled “Haiti’s Disaster and Hollywood’s Avatar.” John travelled to Haiti shortly after the earthquake to organize
This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Haiti disaster” The Haiti Disaster: The Need for a Cultural Transformation The Haiti Disaster: Going to the Root The Haiti Disaster: Our Hope in Christ This is the last in a three-part series by Darrow Miller that focuses on how churches can respond
