Toxic Charity How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (and How to Reverse It)

Name: Toxic Charity How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (and How to Reverse It)
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ISBN: 9780062076212

ISBN-10: 0062076213

ISBN-13: 9780062076212

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert D. Lupton

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Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies) in Atlanta, the voice of the Urban Perspectives newsletter, and the author of Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, has been at the forefront of urban ministry activism for forty years. Now, in the vein of Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty, Richard Stearns’s The Hole in Our Gospel, and Gregory Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart, his groundbreaking…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.03" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English




The Scandal



The Problem with Good Intentions



The Anatomy of Giving



Needs vs. Relationships



Beyond Us-Based Giving



No Quick Fixes



Wise Giving



Take the Oath



Service with Dignity



Getting Started