charity
Haircuts for Human Dignity
By Joseph Sunde
True justice begins with seeing and believing in the dignity of every human person. It begins with recognizing God’s image in each of our neighbors, and it proceeds with service that corresponds to this transcendent truth.
When distortions manifest, the destruction will vary. But it always begins with a failure to rightly relate to this simple reality.
The Danger of Self-Chosen Service for God
By Joseph Sunde
In our efforts to serve others and seek justice in the world, we have a remarkable tendency to fall short, no matter how carefully constructed or well intended our plans may be. Across our culture-making endeavors — whether in the family or work, politics and policymaking — we are easily lured by the contours of our own designs.
King David on the Heart of Christian Stewardship
By Joseph Sunde
We live amid unprecedented economic prosperity, and with the promise of globalization and the continued expansion of opportunity and exchange, such prosperity is bound to grow.
Scarcity, Charity, and the Good Samaritan
By Dylan Pahman
The term “Good Samaritan” does not appear in the Bible, but it has become the common name for the answer Jesus gave to the question, “And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) In our time, “Good Samaritan” is a common idiom for a charitable person, especially someone who would do as the Samaritan in Jesus’s parable did:
Servant Leadership and Creative Service in a Louisiana Kitchen
Good leadership involves a lot more than ordering underlings around. One prominent businesswoman, Cheryl A. Bachelder, realizes this, and has built her career on being a different sort of leader, yielding a long list of accomplishments.
The Legacy of Missionary Banking
By Chris Horst
Are banking and charity incongruent?