True Charity
- Redemptive Charity Requires More of Us
- Food Aid Should Be Linked to a Willingness to Work
- A Review of In the Shadow of Plenty: Biblical Principles for Caring for the Poor by George Grant
- Collaboration Is Overrated: Why Charities Working Together Is Not the First Step
- What It Means to Flourish like a ‘Watered Garden’
- Lessons Learned in Affordable Childcare Ministry
- Measuring a Different Kind of ROI: How Philanthropists and Churches Can Spark True Transformation
- Does A Christian Worldview Boost Economic Outcomes?
- Why Voluntary Charity Is Not Optional: A Reflection on Rights and Duties
- How to Do Redemptive Welfare Reform
A Silent Shift in American Poverty: A Summary of Alienated America
Civil society has retreated for the past half century, but Tim Carney posits that it isn’t dead; it has just gone into hiding. This synopsis of his book Alienated America reveals how the church can play a crucial role in reviving it.
Most of What You Believe About Poverty (Might) Be Wrong: A Summary of the Alternative
Experiencing poverty as an immigrant to the United States from Mexico, author Mauricio Miller challenges common assumptions about the working poor and proposes solutions that give them more control than conventional wisdom allows.
Christian Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Trail Notes on the Field Guide
The Christian Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Field Guide explores and maps the field’s cutting-edge approaches to the perennial issue of poverty. The guide is packed with case studies, history, trends, barriers, and insights. TCI’s Network Director, Nathan Mayo rolls up the key takeaways.
A Practical Faith-Based Approach to Serious Mental Illness: A Synopsis of Madness & Grace
78% of the unsheltered homeless struggle with some form of mental health issue, so encountering serious mental illness is likely when working with those in poverty. In Madness & Grace, Matt Stanford contends that you can do more than just refer them to a professional.
Holistic Healing in Mental Illness: An Overview of Grace for the Afflicted
“There is hope! This is not an empty statement that I say to make people feel better but a fact based on the miracles I see every day; lives are being transformed and families are being restored.” – Stanford on holistic recovery
Agents of Flourishing: How Churches and Nonprofits Can Bring Peace to All Areas of a Community
Amy Sherman offers both historical and contemporary examples of sustainable community engagement from which charity workers and churches can gain inspiration and insight to bring peace to their local communities.