by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Apr 21, 2020 | Opinion
Being the church when the world is crumbling requires providing help taking care of bodies – and hearts. The Gospels demonstrate over and over again that Jesus was concerned with care of bodies. Jesus was concerned with healing to bodies. He healed bodies that could...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion
We’re all familiar, I suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. Charity is giving away some of your time, energy, resources and person so as to help others in need. And that’s an admirable virtue, the sign of a good heart. Justice, on the other hand,...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion
Charity is about being good-hearted, but justice is about something more. Individual sympathy is good and virtuous, but it doesn’t necessarily change the social, economic and political structures that unfairly victimize some people and unduly privilege others....
by Michael Manning | Jun 2, 2017 | Opinion
How do we confront the structural challenges that break people, rather than offer sticking-plaster solutions? I was invited recently to talk about “patterns of need on the Isle of Man.” I joined colleagues from other charities and agencies as we shared...
by Barry Howard | Mar 3, 2015 | Opinion
Robert Lupton has urged churches and other charities to reconsider and revise their mission strategies in order to make them more effective. If a church deems Lupton’s challenge, expounded in his book, “Toxic Charity,” to be valid, what are the steps...
