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Missions Resources - Bibliography

Books about Poverty
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Davis, Mike
The Consuming Passion
Rodney Clapp, Ed.
Lord of the Abandoned
Saunders, Ray
Empowering the Poor: Community Organization Among the City’s Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Robert Linthicum
Amazing Grace
Kozol, Jonathan
Action at the Grassroots: Fighting Poverty and Environmental Decline
Alan Durning
Ministry at the Margins: The prophetic mission of women, youth and the poor
Cheryl Sanders
Getting a Grip on your Money
William C. Wood
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
De Soto, Hernando
Grace At the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World
David Beckmann & Arthur Simon
Honky
Dalton Conley
Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen
David Hilfiker
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
Ron Sider
Quest for Hope in the Slum Community
Scott Bessenecker, editor
Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor
John Hayes
Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums
Mark Kramer
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Shane Claiborne
Reveille for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Bill Clinton
Under The Overpass
Mike Yankoski
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw
Missions and Money
Jonathan J. Bonk
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Ronald J. Sider
Harvest of Hope
Kay Marhsall Strom
Dead Aid
Dambisa Moyo
 
 

God's Word

 
 

""You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.""

Matthew 5:14-16 (NIV)

 
 

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