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Ture Mercy and Charity
True Mercy and Charity Saving America: Faith-based Services and the Future of Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow Princeton University Press. 352 pp. $29.95 reviewed by Amy L. Sherman My...
Tough Love
Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes By Marvin Olasky Free Press, 201 pages, $21 As I write this, I am unsettled...
Where You Lead I Will Follow?
Several observers have pointed out the increasing gap in social and political attitudes and theological commitments between the leadership and the laity of the old-line/mainline churches. The average Episcopalian,...
Evangelicals and Economic Development
Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless...
Evangelicals and Capitalism
With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism by Craig M. Gay, foreword by Peter L. Berger Eerdmans, 276 pages, $19.95 Recently the local news...
Christians and Economic Development
The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called North-South debate. A burst of revisionist thinking has affected recent discussions of...
