This presentation examines funding biases of nonprofits & NGOs across race, class, gender and faith. Research shows that while 52.4% of those in poverty in the USA are people of color, only 16.5% of nonprofits are led by people ofRead more…
Helping like Joseph
Church history in general, and the history of pietistic, Evangelical, and pious streams of faith have been deeply characterized by ever new Christian movements bringing hope for all layers of society and acting as particular advocates for victims of sin,Read more…
Pensar sobre El Agua
Desde mi espacio en Facebook he encontrado esta importante entrevista que sin duda alguna, puede proponer un espacio para reflexionar sobre el agua. ¿El Agua?, ¡Exacto! ¡El Agua!. Pero mejor otorgo la referencia a esta interesante entrevista a Riccardo Petrela, economistaRead more…
L’évangile de la prospérité, tout ce qui brille n’est pas or
Note de l’éditeur : Cette communication préliminaire du Cap 2010 a été écrite par Daniel Bourdanné pour servir de synthèse du sujet qui sera discuté lors de la session multiplexe sur « La pauvreté, la prospérité et l’Évangile ». Vos réponsesRead more…
The Contextual Argument
Closely related to the missional argument is what I call the contextual argument. If the missional argument says both that prosperity is given for the purposes of world mission and evangelization, and that to some degree prosperous missionaries and evangelistsRead more…
Loving the Poor without Hating the Wealthy
The title to this blog purposes to grab one’s attention. However, it will likely have another effect, that of subtly communicating something that I don’t want to intimate. Perhaps some might read this and think, “Oh, this guy just wantsRead more…
Neopentecostalism and witchhunts
Some of the discussions about the Prosperity Gospel have touched on the connection of this to witchhunts, but this is an issue that needs to be taken a lot more seriously by Christians generally. I recommend that anyone concerned withRead more…
The Gospel of God as the Key to Wealth Inequity
On the verge of teenage-hood I remember pouring over a book of cartoons that dealt with the great North-South divide, politics of power, and wealth discrepancies. Brazil, in particular, featured high in my injustice-angst as there was cartoon after cartoonRead more…
DOING BUSINESS TO OVERCOME POVERTY AND TO ADVANCE MISSION
POVERTY AND WEALTH DOING BUSINESS TO OVERCOME POVERTY AND TO ADVANCE MISSION H. Fernando Bullon – Costa Rica If our interest is that business should help to overcome poverty at the same time that mission is fostered,Read more…
Representing the Poor
One aspect of globalisation is what some scholars call cosmopolitanism. This refers to the supposed creation of a highly integrated, mobile, and transnational culture where people around the world interact with diverse peoples on common grounds, under the supposition thatRead more…