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- What’s the Best Way to Help a Panhandler?
- Four High-Impact Ways Your Church Can Serve the Poor
- How to Change Things When Change is Hard: A Bird’s Eye View on the Book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
- The Key to Effective Charity: Image is Everything
- Beyond the Welfare State: How Civil Society Can Succeed Where Welfare Has Failed.
- 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’


What’s the Best Way to Help a Panhandler?
What’s the best way to help a panhandler? Learn why giving cash often makes things worse and explore three practical alternatives that provide real help and long-term hope.
The Key to Effective Charity: Image is Everything
What does it mean to help the poor with dignity? Discover how the truth of being made in God’s image (imago Dei) changes how we fight poverty effectively.
Redemptive Charity Requires More of Us
Redemptive charity goes beyond relief: it engages relationally, affirms dignity, and empowers the poor through meaningful work and flourishing.
What It Means to Flourish like a ‘Watered Garden’
Explore how society must provide the means (not just the message) for people to flourish—turning charity into growth, not dependency.
Why Voluntary Charity Is Not Optional: A Reflection on Rights and Duties
The act of charity is both voluntary and a moral duty. Only personal, neighborly care—not state programs—can meet the poor’s needs with love and dignity.
How to Do Redemptive Welfare Reform
Explore nuanced, biblically grounded welfare reform—critically evaluating both government and private aid to pursue relational, lasting poverty solutions.