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May 2017

May 29, 2017

How Government Support Saved Me, Too

D. L. Mayfield (whose career I've followed ever since she and I were put together...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Charleston entrepreneur writing new story for day laborers

Derek Snook's social enterprise staffing company, In Every Story, pays higher wages, rewards reliability and...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Why Poor People Stay Poor

An article was published recently in Slate about this; it's an excerpt from Hand to...

January 11, 2016

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions

We just ran into this fascinating article at The Atlantic (it's a couple years old,...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

Changing one congregation: Jobs for Life

Last year the Patheos Faith and Work Channel contacted leaders of some prominent community development...

October 14, 2015

Changing one neighborhood: Focused Community Strategies

Last year the Patheos Faith and Work Channel contacted leaders of some prominent community development...

October 12, 2015

Rising Tide or Zero-Sum Game?

Why Christians should care that the Nobel prize in economics has gone to poverty and...

August 2015

August 16, 2015

Meet Dale: A Tale of Perseverance and Love

This post is reprinted from Marion Be The Change, a community development and advocacy organization...

July 2015

July 05, 2015

Give me something better

This post is reprinted from Marion Be The Change, a community development and advocacy organization...

July 02, 2015

The best way to erase poverty

By Bill Peel "The best anti-poverty program is a job," said President Obama at the...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

But what about sin? more from #ActonU

More of our reports from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first six posts...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

Why do the New Testament and the Old Testament treat wealth differently?

Keith Reeves Note: This article is the second of a three-part series on economic production...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

What can really help hurting workers?

This article originally appeared at Hang Together. College of the Ozarks’ “Hard Work U” Program...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

John Wesley’s messages on work and economics

When we ran our recent series of posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

January 22, 2015

John McKnight: Low-income communities are not needy — they have assets

This interview comes to us from Duke Divinity School's blog Faith & Leadership, an offering...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Equipping the local church

The Patheos Faith and Work Channel recently contacted leaders of some prominent community development and...

November 26, 2014

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Changing one neighborhood

The Patheos Faith and Work Channel recently contacted leaders of some prominent community development and...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

A broken brave new world

This week in the Patheos Public Square, Patheos has selected a few "resident experts" from across Patheos channels...

August 25, 2014

Three more ways to help the poor

This is a subject our friends at the Kern Pastors Network blog talk about frequently, and they've...

August 08, 2014

Three ways to help the poor

This is a subject our friends at the Kern Pastors Network blog talk about frequently,...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

[VIDEO] How can we cross the political divide?

Recently on the Oikonomia Network author and Detroit pastor Chris Brooks shared an excerpt from his...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

Poverty and the vocation of business

Is the vocation of business the main support of civil society's institutions?

March 15, 2014

Generational poverty: a post from a Kern pastor

The church cannot afford to engage the poor without understanding their culture.

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Ready to work

When the economy is changing rapidly, those at the bottom of society can become disconnected...