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Poverty

Good Samaritan, Meet a Philadelphia Eagle: Part 2

Joy Pullmann | April 18, 2013 | Poverty

I’ve already outlined how I spent a plane ride with a Philadelphia Eagle football player who showed me, among other eye-popping riches such as his son’s elementary school tuition that costs as much as college tuition, his expensive watch collection. This caused me to...

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Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist.

Why Does God Care About Charity?

Wesley Gant | April 18, 2013 | Poverty

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” – Isaiah 61:1...

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Wesley Gant is the Director of Strategic Communications at Polymath, a creative agency.

Material Problems Have Moral Solutions

Nicholas Freiling | April 18, 2013 | Poverty

Is material prosperity the key to moral improvement? For Marxists, the answer is yes (as explained in my last post). In fact, according to Marx’s narrative, the moral and social ills of society are directly attributable to their material poverty. The only way to...

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Nicholas Freiling

Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

Want to Help the Poor? Focus on Relationships.

Jacqueline Isaacs | April 4, 2013 | Poverty

Spokespeople for free markets and limited government are often good with numbers, but they are rightly critiqued for their lack of emotional appeal. We know all the facts, we have all the charts, and we can fill our books with hundreds of pages of endnotes and...

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Poverty is Fear

Jacqueline Isaacs | April 3, 2013 | Poverty

While reading through “When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself” by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett, there are “initial thoughts” questions at the beginning of each chapter. Before chapter two, the...

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Poverty is Broken Relationships

Jacqueline Isaacs | April 2, 2013 | Poverty

We are all poor. As Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College explains in this video, the fall of man severed four key relationships—our relationships with God, with self, with others and with creation. This four-relation model...

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.