Authors Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College have written a very interesting and timely book entitled When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself. For the next two days, Westminster Bookstore is offering this book for $4.89 (less than half the Amazon.com price, as you can see to the left). This $4.89 price is only valid until 5 PM (EST) on Saturday, July 18th. A bit about the authors: Steve Corbett is the Community Development Specialist for the Chalmers Center for Economic Development … [Read more...] about Great Book about Poverty: On Sale
Archives for 2009
The Housing Boom and Bust
The most recent book by Hoover economist Thomas Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust, arrived today and I'm hoping to read it next week on vacation. The product description: This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up—and then suddenly … [Read more...] about The Housing Boom and Bust
Status on the Sotomayor Hearings
Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line sums up the Sotomayor hearings thus far. Upshot: She is not doing well on the stand, and thus will not get much GOP support from the committee or from the full Senate. Also, Byron York reports on why Republicans don't believe Sotomayor's stories. … [Read more...] about Status on the Sotomayor Hearings
Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ – John Piper
John Piper's has a new book available called Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton (Swans Are Not Silent). This book is the fifth installment in the Swans Are Not Silent series. The product description: Jesus' words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity's expansion proves that God's strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline … [Read more...] about Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ – John Piper
Tights Are Not Pants
True and Funny. HT: Josh Harris … [Read more...] about Tights Are Not Pants
Two Views on The Permissibility of Deaconesses
Recently, the Presbyterian Church of America held a friendly, in-house discussion on the commissioning (not ordaining) of female deacons (i.e., deaconesses). Dr. Ligon Duncan maintained the position that: "There are better-attested ways of encouraging our women in the diaconal ministry of the church than creating a class of female deacons (and there are already helpful suggestions toward that better way in our [denominational] standards)." And Dr. Tim Keller defended the view that:"The biblical evidence is strong that women were examined for and appointed to do diaconal work in the local … [Read more...] about Two Views on The Permissibility of Deaconesses