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From Pews to Pantries: How a Church’s Welfare Program is Revolutionizing Global Aid
How do the Church of Jesus Christ Women-led initiatives, partnerships, and comprehensive care drive their mission?
How do the Church of Jesus Christ Women-led initiatives, partnerships, and comprehensive care drive their mission?
What really defines the wealth of nations? Is it GDP or the strength and stability of its family units?
Scripture mandates saints care for the poor and needy, but greed and indulgence prevail. Prophets condemn materialism, saying true religion is mercy and honesty. Still, surplus property remains elusive.
How can individuals fight poverty? By advocating for fair wages, supporting family-friendly policies, ensuring decent housing, and fostering kindness in daily interactions.
What keeps poverty persistent despite government aid? Looking under our welfare myths, we find inefficiencies in welfare programs, challenges faced by the poor, and poorly placed welfare distribution.
The increase in poverty in the United States in Spring 2023 should be of concern to people of faith. The first step is to understand why this increase has happened.
Critics of the way the Church manages its resources fail to understand that adequate resources are a necessary but insufficient condition to alleviating suffering.
Most discussions of domestic violence take for granted this is primarily a male-on-female issue—reflective of the larger feminist narrative dominant today. Far less attention has gone to the evidence suggesting female violence is a much greater problem than has been acknowledged.