All Posts Tagged With: "poverty"
Faith, Hope and Poverty: A Story from Kenya
Life is frustrating, right? I’m not famous, my two-year-old won’t go to sleep at bedtime, and my least favorite contestant might actually win American Idol. Most of these problems are solvable or irrelevant or not really problems in the first place. But here’s one problem that has bothered me since 1996: How do I help [...]
28Apr2008 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Moral Lives of Foreign Correspondents
Visiting a slum in Nairobi is like walking through a haunted house: a horror around every corner. You have to step carefully to avoid slipping into the open sewers. You see and hear and smell that people are living in situations very close to hell on earth. It’s hard to fight the overwhelming urge to [...]
27Aug2007 | Andrea Useem | 0 comments | ContinuedBooklet: Why — and How — Churches Need to Innovate
The Dallas-based Leadership Network - the closest thing the evangelical world has to a church think-tank — released in February a glossy publication covering the newest and best ways to “do church.” The 63-page Innovation 2007 starts off with a provocative sampling of relevant statistics. Did you know the average American spends only seven minutes [...]
26Apr2007 | Andrea Useem | 2 comments | Continued