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True Charity
- Find Your People: Why the True Charity Summit Is the Ultimate Event To Ignite Effective Compassion
- One Young Momma at a Time
- Learned Helplessness: The Hidden Barrier to Escaping Poverty
- Leading Through Change: Lessons from Hope Counseling Center’s Bold Switch
- 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


Learned Helplessness: The Hidden Barrier to Escaping Poverty
Why do some people stay trapped in poverty — even when opportunities to escape exist? The answer is “learned helplessness,” a psychological barrier that can be overcome with the right approach.
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.