Financial Help and Health Care Aren't "Crack" For Those in Need
OCT 4, 2013 | BY: JAMIE CALLOWAY-HANAUER -- When I was a young newlywed and first-time mom, the older women from my church...
Hating the Poor but Loving Jesus?
SEPT 10, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- The haters of the poor look at poverty and claim that the moral character of the poor is so deficient...
The Irrelevance of Jesus to Congressmen and Food Stamps
May 24, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- It is astonishing to me that politicians who are eager to identify themselves as Christians so readily...
Slandering the Poor: An Exercise in Self-Righteousness
In the minds of some people any reference to the hard working poor is an oxymoron. Being poor and being hard working are mutually exclusive to them. People are poor quite simply because they refuse to exert the...
Planning for Poverty: The SNAP Challenge
I’ve said before that privilege often is invisible until you don’t have it. So in that light, I’m doing a little experiment in a few days with our family, and I encourage you to join in.
A lot of us never ...