Sagamore’s Amy Sherman is a senior advisor to the International Justice Mission. At an event at Sagamore on June 24, 2013, Dr. Sherman hosted bestselling author Corbin Addison whose novel, A Walk Across the Sun, narrated the plight of young women attempting to survive Mumbai’s infamous brothels. This story illuminates the crisis of modern day […]
From Christianity Today: How faith-based nonprofit Grace Period is turning the tide on predatory lending. To a hardworking mom facing a cash crunch, a payday loan can seem like awfully good news—the chance to borrow some money in advance of a paycheck that is days or weeks away. But when that paycheck actually arrives, paying […]
From Made to Flourish: It’s a late spring day in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I’m standing in front of the Ravoux high rise apartments, a public housing project. When a bright, multicolored bus pulls into the complex, the waiting crowd outside includes several residents. The Twin Cities Mobile Market has arrived. For the past two years, […]
From Made to Flourish: A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, […]
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From Made to Flourish: What does poverty feel like? Congregants from Macedonia Baptist Church and other churches in Made to Flourish’s Kansas City Network wanted to find out through the Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) this past March. What is COPE? Unlike other poverty simulations, COPE lets you step into the shoes of families living in […]
We often read that an unexamined life is not a healthy or realistic way to live, yet when it comes to money, we tend to shy away from what Scripture teaches us about how we spend, give, and save our money. Practicing the King’s Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and […]
From The Green Room: Barry-Wehmiller is a multimillion dollar global engineering/manufacturing company you’ve probably never heard of and yet “touch” multiple times each week. Close to 95% of all the cardboard used in the U.S. is made on a BW machine (that’s virtually every cereal box at your grocery store). 80% of the world’s medicines […]
From Christianity Today: In his attention to sustainability, community, and integrity, Chicago-based Perry Bigelow builds houses that foster their inhabitants’ flourishing. Perry Bigelow, a Chicago homebuilder, is not perfect. He’s humble and knows he needs to rely daily on the mercies of Christ …. He was the kingdom-oriented businessman I was hoping to find in […]
From Christianity Today: Chef Nikki Heckmann’s Bistro To Go offers tasty ingredients to revitalize Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. On any given day between 11am and 7pm, locals can watch Nikki Heckmann ply her craft at Bistro To Go, the eclectic café the chef launched in 2007 in the North Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Just peer […]
