World Food Bank Interviews the Poor

In the early 1990s the World Bank tried a new approach in their attempts to alleviate world poverty: they started consulting with the real experts on ...

The Man Who Made the Greatest Impact on Poverty

According to Richard Stearns, president of World Vision, the person who has had the single greatest impact on addressing global poverty is a largely-unknown ...

Author Describes Inhumane Treatment of Aborigines

The nature writer Bill Bryson describes the treatment of the native Aborigines during the early days of Australia:

For most Europeans the Aborigines … ...

The Real 'Santa Claus' Rescues Three Innocents

History seems to confirm at least a few key details from the life of Nicholas of Myra, the real early church leader we know today as Santa Claus. One ...

Jesus' Birth Unleashed a Movement of Mercy

How did the birth of Jesus change the world? Historian Rodney Stark argues that there was one huge factor that helped capture the attention of the ancient ...

The Four Levels of Charity

Ancient Hebrew wisdom describes four levels of charity. The highest level is to provide a job for one in need without his knowledge that you provided ...

Rescue of Seven-year-old Girl Focuses Amy Carmichael's Mission

In 1901 a seven-year-old Indian girl named Preena escaped from a Hindu temple and sought refuge with a Christian named Amy Carmichael, a young woman who ...

Church Helps Woman in Strip Club Start a New Life

We have a number of people from our church and from a few other churches in our community who are a part of a ministry called New Name. This ministry ...

Secular Reporter Praises the Work of Evangelicals

In 2011 New York Times editorialist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column praising the work of many evangelical Christians. Kristof begins by noting that at ...

Church Reaches Out to an Inner-City Football Team

Faith Inspirational Missionary Baptist Church has adopted its local high school, the roughest in a rough city. Forty percent of the students at Centennial ...