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What Determines your Vote?

Closed Published by jdodson January 21st, 2008 on Creation Project

According to research done by Barna group, Evangelical voting concerns are quite different than the rest of the American population. In fact, the numbers are disconcerting…
Evangelicals’ top concern - by a wide margin - was abortion (94%). This was followed by the personal debt of Americans (81%), the content of television and movies (79%), homosexual […]

Slums are Good for Cities?

Closed Published by jdodson December 19th, 2007 on Creation Project

In “Bright Lights, Big Cities” Matthew Quirk argues for the goodness of burgeoning urban slums. Contrary to intuition, slums, shantytowns, and squatter settlements reduce national poverty. Quirk points out that sixty-six percent of the migrants who move from rural to urban contexts make more money. Yet doesn’t it take more money to live in (or […]

Open letter from the Salvadoran Church

Closed Published by peoplenotprofit September 21st, 2007 on People not profit

SALVADORAN ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
San Salvador, 3 September 2007
ALERT IN EL SALVADOR
The people are forsaken and scattered.
“When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36
Pastoral Letter from the Historic Churches
To: All Salvadorans of good will
To: The three powers of the Salvadoran state: the executive, […]

Trip summary, vol. I: Foto Voz

Closed Published by peoplenotprofit July 26th, 2007 on People not profit

While some of us were working on building a house, others were busy working with El Sunza’s youth on a project we’ve named (quite unoriginally) Foto Voz (photo voice).
The idea of the project was to put cameras in the hands of village kids - to give them a medium and voice through which to capture […]

Harmony in El Salvador

Closed Published by peoplenotprofit June 21st, 2007 on People not profit

Below is an interesting and hopeful article about a diverse youth orchestra in El Salvador. It’s sort of a fleshing out of a favorite quote by Mother Teresa: We desire not a class struggle, but a class encounter - in which the rich save the poor and the poor save the rich.
Here’s an excerpt and […]

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