Powerful stuff from Richard Stearns (president of World Vision):
Today, we live in a world that tolerates extreme poverty much like racism was tolerated fifty-plus years ago. We can all become people determined to do something to change the world. We can speak up, we can volunteer and we can give. Ending extreme poverty will take [...]
Archive for May, 2007
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2007
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Cars
Published by 1 year, 7 months ago in Business as Mission, Environmental, Funny, India and Our Story. 0 CommentsAs we sat at the dealer the other night, waiting for the service on our car to be finished, I was struck with the thought: in a few months… I won’t own a car!
Now, for most of the world, that’s normal, but for red-blooded American male, not owning a car is… well… weird.
As a child, [...]
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The relativity of wealth in a global economy
Published by 1 year, 8 months ago in Business as Mission, India and Our Story. 0 CommentsMarketplace recently reported on the two extremes of wealth in the world: those living on $1 a day and “the rest of us.”
As our global awareness of poverty has increased, many of the daily luxuries Beth and I used to enjoy have faded a bit — and some have even become bitter.
Sometimes, when I’m getting [...]
I just stumbled across Office Tigers, a feature length documentary about a business process outsourcing company (BPO) in India.
Which is cool because, well, that’s what we’re going to India to do!
Here’s what’s not cool: this company is all about exporting the American dream (which few Americans can really afford) to India (where the vast majority [...]
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2007
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God, heal my spiritual myopia
Published by 1 year, 8 months ago in Business as Mission. 0 CommentsI am humbled.
Andrew Jones called me on my narrow view of how and where God is working.
Jon, your theology sounds water-tight on paper . . . . but how do you explain recent moves of God among specific people groups like the Iranians?
Sometimes I get so excited about Business as Mission and marketplace ministry… I [...]
