History is strewn with the casualties of experiments in pursuing the “perfect society.” Striving for justice is important, but seeking justice in the knowledge that absolute justice will not be achieved in this world tempers our drive in a way ...
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Governments and well-meaning philanthropists continue to spend billions of dollars on foreign-led interventions that prop up the traditional model of international development. But real solutions to poverty are worked out by people with a vision of change that is rooted ...
Read MoreConcern for the poor is an essential part of being a Christian. Yet, Christians often don’t know how to effectively engage people who are in poverty, often coming from social and ethnic backgrounds very different from them.
Read MorePenalizing great minds can only produce sorrows for all but it seems “fair.” Let us all get a “fair share” of a shrinking universe, is the idea. As long as the space between “them” and “us” shrinks, I’ll be happy ...
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Read MoreEvery human being by virtue of being human is the type of being who can reason and choose, these potentialities exist in every human in radical fashion, in the very essence of our nature.
Read MoreIncentives matter more than dispositions. The structure of a system often has built-in incentives that entice people to, over time, move in one direction or the other. If you incentivize work, you will get working people. If you incentivize sloth, ...
Read MoreCarmen Salomé is the Freedom & Virtue Institute’s Immediate Past Board President and currently serves on the FVI Board. She is very active in our local SW Florida Community. I had the outstanding opportunity to attend Acton University again this year. ...
Read MoreHuman universals are often lost within the choreographed discussions on specifics about poverty in America. Policy debates and political ideology often sinks us into one of those silences that fill public life wherever meaningful debate is needed. Political correctness has ...
Read MoreGiving From The Heart | By Ismael Hernandez October 6, 2015/0 Comments/in ReThink Missions /by @povertycure Recently I joined the board of directors of a local non-profit organization, St. Martin de Porres Ministries. I met the ministry’s founders years ago ...
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