Poverty

FAMILY SUCCESS: Doar proposed a marketing campaign that highlights the importance of work, family, and personal responsibility.

Powerful obscurity

Welfare | Robert Doar may not be well-known, but he made welfare reform a reality in New York City

Don't Walk By volunteers reach out to the homeless on a New York City subway platform.

Don’t walk by

Compassion |  Homeless ministries complete project to canvass every block in Manhattan, as new numbers show homelessness in New York reaching record highs

 A sign advertises the Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic at Neighborhood Fellowship.

Turning poverty into an opportunity for the gospel

Compassion |  Working out of an aging church building in the Eastside community of Indianapolis, Neighborhood Fellowship is waging a low-key undeclared war on poverty. The…

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Gun control and charitable deduction control

Gun control and charitable deduction control

Charity |  As Congress is debating gun control under the glare of media spotlights, a quiet threat is emerging under the radar: charity contributions control. Non-profit…

Rush hour commuters take the subway in New York.

Compassion on the subway

Effective Compassion |  A subway ride in New York is fairly predictable. But occasionally something out of the ordinary happens, though predictable in its own way. A performer will…

Locks, burqas, and welfare: Signs of weakness, not strength

Locks, burqas, and welfare: Signs of weakness, not strength

Compassion |  Do home windows with metal grilles, doors with triple locks, and signs that advertise security systems suggest a societal commitment to the sanctity of…

Bread of Life Mission volunteers serve a meal to the homeless at a

Seattle shoo?

Poverty |  In 25 years of writing off and on about poverty-fighting, I've noticed that Christians and Jews who read the Bible see homeless individuals as made in God’s…

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

From demoralized to remoralized Republicans

Compassion |  Readers sent me some thoughtful suggestions in response to my question about re-branding “compassionate conservatism.” (I suggested a nomenclature change…

A family is Zambia is now protected from malaria after receiving insecticide-treated bed nets from World Vision.

The perfect gift

Christmas |  Most people who haven't finished their shopping are starting to worry about what gifts to give a friend, relative, or spouse. Quick, what did you give or…

<em>New York Times</em> columnist Nicholas Kristof

‘Soul-crushing dependency’

Poverty |  When New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof gets out and reports, he learns that reality differs from what his fellow Times columnists (and sometimes Kristof…

Jonah Goldberg

C.C. Lazarus awakens

Compassion |  Could compassionate conservatism, mostly dead from 2002 to 2008 and dodo-dead since then, have a return engagement? Columnist Jonah Goldberg last week wrote,

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