Bono on Compassion

U2 singer Bono, in a private meeting in June 2001 on the Hill in Washington, D.C., said this about helping the needy of the world:

What will really wake ...

Money Irrelevant to Happiness

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

Divine Love in Us

One Sunday in our church service, a woman who sings in our choir, a former drug addict with the HIV virus, told the story of how she came to Christ. She ...

Untapped Spiritual Resources

Dr. Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ tells this story of a famous oil field called Yates Pool:

During the depression this field was a sheep ranch ...

Poverty Brings Strength

Octavius (the pagan) charges:

Look: some of you, the greater half (the better half, you say), go in need, suffer from cold, from hunger and toil. And yet ...

Jim Rhodes: God's Complainer

Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military ...

Stealing Bread from the Thieves

One winter's night in 1935, it is told, Fiorello LaGuardia, the irrepressible mayor of New York, showed up at a night court in the poorest ward of ...

Living in Poverty

We leave our places of worship, and no deep and inexpressible wonder sits upon our faces. We can sing these lilting melodies, and when we go out into ...

Poor and Poorer

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

The Sin of Poverty

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.