Occasionally, we have a comment worthy of reposting; that’s what we’re doing today, this one from the nation of Nigeria. It’s likely that many Darrow Miller and Friends readers do not see comments, especially those that come in late, so here’s a response to Darrow’s 11/19 post, Religious Liberty Fading
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
“Why does Africa import $50 billion worth of food that it could grow itself? Jon Vandenheuvel can give you the answer in one word.” So says Mike Metzger. The call upon my life has been to engage with the world of poverty. A question central to that endeavor has been
In part 1, we introduced Bryant Myers’ paper, “Progressive Pentecostalism, Development, and Christian Development NGOs: A Challenge and an Opportunity“, noting especially the contrast he draws between the perspective of Western poverty fighters and African Pentecostals living in poverty. Myers accurately points out this contrast, but we suggest his analysis
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
Numerous articles have been sparked by Brian Palmer’s piece on the Christian medical “missionaries” and the Ebola crisis. They include the following at MereOrthodoxy, Ethic’s Daily, New York Times!, and BreakPoint. These have mostly focused on the motivations of Christian healthcare workers and how scary this is for many. I
Years ago, Marilyn and I had a young North American atheist stay at our home. He had just returned from a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in a remote village in the jungles of Indonesia. He left and returned to the United States as an atheist. But his experiences
Bono, the rock star who rose to prominence almost 30 years ago, is singing a new song … about capitalism! A famine in the Horn of Africa killed 400,000 in Ethiopia in 1983-84. In response, two musician activists–Bob Geldof and Midge Ure–organized what became one of the largest television broadcasts
According to the latest UNICEF estimates, 34 million people in the world suffer from HIV/AIDS. Half of the afflicted are women. Ten percent are children. In 2010, the latest available year for which we have statistics, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 1.8 million people died of
Too often, a truncated gospel message has accompanied our outreach efforts. As Scott Allen has written elsewhere, an artificial division between personal faith and daily life leaves a fragmented Christianity, full of gaps. The effects are perhaps nowhere more obvious than in Africa. Church movements have been built on the sacred-secular
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