1.
Gary Haugen and his recent TED talk on the secret to addressing
global poverty. Stop whatever you are doing right now and spend twenty minutes
watching this. Yes, it is that good, and that important to watch. I came away
grateful for the many blessings we have here in the States, saddened by how it
seems like what we have is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to
the developing world, and challenged to think more holistically about how to
help the poor.
2.
Anthony Bradley and his post about how, yes, poor white people
do also need the Gospel. It sounds funny to say that, but the reality is that many
Christian leaders I know mostly talk about reaching young professionals and
cultural elites in the urban cores of our cities. A good thing to do, I would
agree. But I’ve only met a small handful of people who have a heart for doing
ministry near places like trailer parks or depressed rural areas of our
country. These are places where you find the kind of poor whites who aren’t
attractive to our culture and who are largely looked down upon and devalued,
but who thankfully God is immensely interested in and greatly values. These are
people who need to be and can be reached with the Gospel, if only we would be
willing to reach out to them. As we say at Roosevelt, ALL people need to be
reached with all of Jesus.
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