Series: Luxury, Poverty and the Kingdom of God
Sermon 3 of 8 - 5.6.7: Luxury, poverty and Proverbs. Listen (stream) MP3 (right-click)

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I just finished reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, and let me tell you, it is THE MOST amazing, damning, interesting, entertaining and convicting thing I’ve read in years. Ehrenreich went undercover with “the working poor” in 1999 and 2000 by relocating to new communitites and finding affordable (i. e., substandard) housing and [...]

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I recently attended the Poverty Awareness Workshop at our local United Way. While I did get some good information, the workshop was hampered by:

A superficial presentation marred by 60s-style small group projects.
The slaughter of countless trees to provide numerous handouts of outdated information that we didn’t have time to look at and probably will [...]

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Series: Luxury, Poverty and the Kingdom of God
Sermon 2 of 8 - 4.22.07: Starving Jesus. Listen (stream) MP3 (right-click)

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Series: Luxury, Poverty and the Kingdom of God
Sermon 1 of 8 - 4.15.07: Beggars at the gate. Listen (stream) MP3 (right-click)

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Globalization.  Sweatshops.  Off-shoring.  Child labor.  Free markets.  My recent reading about global poverty has opened my eyes to a variety of buzzwords (not to mention real issues) regarding economies and how they help people rise above poverty and make a living.
But never have I seen a clearer illustration of our interdependence than THIS:

The guy in [...]

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In my post last week on poverty, I invited my friend and MHCC member Carolyn Fulghum to jump in to this discussion. I’m grateful that she has done so, with this article. Carolyn is the Community Development Coordinator for the Tennessee Department of Health. Dennis

I do not have any answers about [...]

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I spent some time today talking to my good friend Carolyn about poverty. She works with it regionally and understands a lot about its causes. I hope she’ll write a guest post on the subject here soon. In the meantime, she helped me see some connections between our stalwart evangelical individualism and [...]

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I thought I’d get back to this topic sooner. Part 1 was more than two weeks ago.
Whether the issue is racism, poverty, missions or even salvation, we in the evangelical churches in America have a weakness that keeps us from seeing the whole picture. The weakness is our ingrained belief in the centrality [...]

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I wrote in an earlier post about how difficult it is to work constructively against race problems since we live in racially segregated worlds. Here are a few more thoughts…
In Divided by Faith, a book on how evangelical religion interacts with the race problems in America, Michael Emerson and Christian Smith did extensive interviews [...]

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