In "Big is Beautiful?" (March 2007), Marie Dennis rightly says that more must be done to help the millions of people living in poverty around the world.
Economic Justice
Rose Marie Berger, Jonathan Mendez 6-01-2007
Christian Aid's 2007 report "A Rich Seam: Who Benefits from Rising Commodity Prices?" indicates that mining companies that extract raw commodities—such as oil, nickel, or copper—turn th
Rose Marie Berger 6-01-2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker talks about Katrina, bubble baths, and the art of remembering.
Rose Marie Berger 6-01-2007
Our children are coming home from the front lines- and they have questions.
Administrator 5-31-2007
For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat.
- Exodus 23:10-11
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Administrator 5-14-2007
This article in Sunday's LA Times caught my attention:
Evangelical leader Rick Warren came to the heart of the religious right movement last week to criticize a narrow focus on abortion, homosexuality and pornography as [...]
Administrator 5-09-2007
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and will be repaid in full.
- Proverbs 19:17
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Administrator 5-04-2007
There are two pieces on poverty from today's Washington Post that are worth reading and discussing. The first is by one of my favorite columnists, E.J. Dionne Jr., If Democrats Want to Help the Poor. . . :
Republicans once preached compassion, but then went off to war. [...]
Elizabeth Palmberg 5-01-2007
Trade technocrats try to hide behind a veil of boring, but you can get beyond the jargon.
Administrator 4-11-2007
Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
- Proverbs 17:5-5
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Administrator 4-10-2007
Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. This time I watched it in the context of Zimbabwe, a country that is being beaten and brutalized by its leaders in their quest for [...]
Administrator 4-10-2007
Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. This time I watched it in the context of Zimbabwe, a country that is being beaten and brutalized by its leaders in their quest for [...]
Administrator 4-10-2007
Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. This time I watched it in the context of Zimbabwe, a country that is being beaten and brutalized by its leaders in their quest for [...]
Lee A. Rials 4-01-2007
In "School of Shame" (February 2007), the author addresses the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in a way that is deceitful and false and libels the good people who wo
Rose Marie Berger, Jonathan Mendez 4-01-2007
Since the industrial revolution, cities often have been seen as the domain of low-income residents, while their surrounding suburbs have been home to middle- and upper-income people.
Rose Marie Berger, Jonathan Mendez 4-01-2007
BeadforLife has helped roll hundreds of Ugandan families out of poverty by training HIV-positive women and refugees in the art of bead rolling.