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The Local Church and Poverty
DwainDStewart
Introduction When Jesus said that amongst us we will always have the poor (Mt. 26:11) I often wonder whether His disciples deeply understood how timeless that statement of truth would be. Today more than ever we are bombarded with visual representations of the enormous poverty-gap within the world. The goal of this position paper is to examine the various causes that contribute to poverty. As ... ...more
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African American Heritage Week: Why is Poverty Part of the Story?
EnglishMajorLeagues
I've been writing about influential African American figures all week, and I received a question in an email about my work. It reads thus: "Why did so many of the people you wrote about grow up poor? Not every black person is poor!" This is actually an excellent question. Why do so many influential black figures begin life in poverty? I'd like to say that this is a historical footnote that can ... ...more
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Being uneducated an unemployed in a gready country
Memory8133
Well one lesson you should take seriously is life is Harder than you think and you should be grateful for everything if you still have people helping you get what need. People in different places in the world who are unemployed tend to do things they don't want just so they can survive and get something to eat or a safe place to sleep. But what I can say that increases crime is experience in ... ...more
