Congress Should Kill the Social Innovation Fund
“It’s not immediately obvious why appropriations committees in both houses of the Republican-controlled Congress have voted to end the Social Innovation Fund. The easiest conjecture is that this is a...
View ArticleKay Warren at The Gathering
Kay Warren was with us this year at The Gathering 2015. Read her recently published article, Hope for Mental Illness. Read more here The post Kay Warren at The Gathering appeared first on The Gathering.
View ArticleSteve Garber: The most beautiful, and the most broken, all together
The most beautiful, and the most broken, all together— making sense of both is the question of my life, and of every life. Last weekend I was in Dallas, Texas, taking part in the Gathering, an event...
View ArticleSolar Fields, Sexist Poverty and a Modern Marshall Plan
“At a time when Europe and the rest of the world are flailing in response to the massive refugee crisis in the Middle East, this hardly seems a time for grand commitments of any kind, unless it’s a...
View ArticleThe Compassion Experience
Compassion International, too, approaches poverty alleviation as an outgrowth of enterprise…Tim Glenn, the communications director for Compassion International, wouldn’t tell me how much each...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
EVERY so often, you hear grotesquely wealthy American chief executives announce in sanctimonious tones the intention to use their accumulated hundreds of millions, or billions, “to lift people out of...
View ArticleA Long Way: New Music from Josh Garrels
Josh Garrels has spent more than a decade crafting music that cuts clean through. Resting in the space between accessibility and honesty, Garrels’ songs wrestle with and celebrate the mystery of faith...
View ArticleBob Doll’s Investment Outlook October 2015
“Since the Great Recession, the global economy has grown sporadically at a below-trend pace. This is unlikely to change in the short-term, but we expect ongoing improvement, led by growth in the United...
View ArticleThe Surprising Power of the Coil by Greg Campbell
Gathering participant Greg Campbell has co-written a new book with Steve Halliday called, “The Surprising Power of the Coil.” New York Times best-selling author and psychologist Dr. John Townsend wrote...
View ArticleDavid Weekley: Asking Tough Questions
The cover story of the Fall 2015 issue of Philanthropy magazine features Gathering participant David Weekley. “What happens once you’ve been fortunate enough to create some wealth is that you begin to...
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