Shelley Otto typical temporal, non quasi spiritual message... what would Jesus do ?... hmmmmm Jesus fed with loaves and fishes, didnt hold a seminar to teach them how to fish .....
May 17, 2012 12:53 pm

Poverty Revolution If anyone is wanting to go deeper into the issues raised in this article, we highly recommend the book "When Helping Hurts." It's basically the model for FH Canada's sustainable development work. http://www.amazon.com/When-Helping-Hurts-Alleviating-Yourself/dp/0802457053
May 17, 2012 1:46 pm

Vicki Joseph i agree...
May 07, 2012 12:46 pm

Appoline Aldea Gallaza Thats why we need to be united for. Social democracy
May 07, 2012 12:57 pm

Brett Woodward Everybody vote with your wallet and sponsor a child!!
May 07, 2012 1:50 pm

Poverty Revolution Thanks for the comments everyone, keep the discussion coming!
May 07, 2012 1:54 pm

Poverty Revolution In case anyone wants to take Brett up on sponsoring... try www.fhcanada.org/child
May 07, 2012 1:55 pm

Surbhi Guleria Joshi Vote Social Democracy
May 07, 2012 2:26 pm

Michael Marcelle People God is not going to give people a better standard of living. Wait, who says people with money have a better standard of living? Wake up people, these reports are from the same economists that say " if we build a power generator - in the middle of your poverty stricken land - then your people will have more money for education and rice.... except the western influenced leaders actually put the country into debt to First-world mega-org.'s... thus ruining the flow of there "fucked up country". Wake up people!!! We don't have a better life... it's all relative!
May 07, 2012 2:37 pm

Kate Shaw Notice that NONE of them live in any place Occupiers march and whine. Can we ship them to India where they might be able to do some good?
May 07, 2012 3:38 pm

Barbara Atkins So sad!
May 07, 2012 9:03 pm

Tracy Moar Jesus please stop this??? Jesus told us to stop this. What are we doing? Praying is not enough because we already have the answer.
May 07, 2012 11:03 pm

Ben Berland Kate, come to a rez and you will see first hand the poverty that exists that occupiers march and whine about and others deny in an ostrich-like fashion. And the reason the truly oppressed don't march or be counted is that they are too busy trying to survive.
May 08, 2012 10:48 am

Bill Patterson how will the western church be judged for our wast of what God has given us.? forgive us Father
May 08, 2012 5:59 pm

Ben Northcott god did not make money...and money makes poverty...
May 08, 2012 6:27 pm

Anne Marie Elderkin A paradyme shift in thinking and a rethinking of the Locust of Control which is not in the hands of the few but in the minds and injanuity of the many!
May 09, 2012 5:26 pm

Attila Lewis Lendvai The equitable exchange of energies and resources is fundamental to the underlying paradigm/matrix of nature (and the universe i.e. the conservation of energy, cause and effect, et al). Money is not the problem. To blame the system is to ignore the truth. No human-born alternative system to economics will solve the problem, because it's not the word "system" that is the core of the problem in the phrase"human-born system." Humanity is the problem. What is needed is a revolution of consciousness. What is needed is for each of us to gaze long and hard at ourselves and awaken to our own internal suffering. Only then can we hope to create a world free of external suffering. Until we comprehend the poverty and injustices within us (which we ourselves are responsible for), we will never comprehend how to eradicate poverty and injustice from the world.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi
May 10, 2012 9:24 am