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Toxic Charity

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

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Toxic Charity

By: Robert D. Lupton
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
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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 Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting, real-world change.
Philanthropy & Charity Social Sciences Missions & Missionary Work Ministry & Evangelism Social Issues Christianity Christian Living
Inspiring Insights • Valuable Points • Clear Presentation • Good Analysis • Challenging Perspective

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I enjoyed some of the information but lacks empathy when speaking of low income communities. Some times the writer comes up as imperialistic but the theory presented is good overall analysis.

Good information but at times insensitive

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Great overview of the poverty programs and how they can be done wrong and done right.

Helping in the wrong way does more harm than good.

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Important input for people who wants to help others. It helped me with how I will move forward in the future with my charity.

Important input

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a different perspective that provokes thought..social srrvants should pass it on...empowerment is the order of the day

informative

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The book is very specific on what needs to be done with charity. I'm not a fan. Not poorly written, but no room for discussion.

Not my cup of charity

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