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From Charity to Justice Through Citysquare

Author	: David Dillman
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 18
Release	: 2013
Genre	:
ISBN	:

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The service-learning and co-curricular programs at most universities tend to focus on charitable activities. While a university's culture of charity is in the mainstream of American civic life, charity is limited and may be counterproductive both as a response to poverty and as a curricular or co-curricular activity. To make this case this paper distinguishes between charity and justice and argues that promoting justice requires engaging students with organizations whose core principles and practices is grounded in justice rather than charity. One example of this type of organization is the Dallas-based social service, community development organization CitySquare, an organization which is explicitly guided by a social justice orientation. Creating partnerships with such organizations is a particularly powerful approach to educate students about the limits of charity and the possibilities of justice.

From Charity To Social Justice

Author	: Frank M. Loewenberg
Publisher	: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages	: 230
Release	:
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 9781412824101

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"By use of source documents, the author explores Jewish influence on early Christian charities, seeing it as more important than previously believed. He traces the evolution of charitable institutions in ancient Judaism from the days of the monarchy until the conclusion of the Talmud, a period of about fifteen hundred years. He demonstrates how responsibility for support of the poor was initially placed on the individual, with every farmer obligated to provide for the poor from his field. Dramatic increases in the number and proportion of poor people made major structural changes imperative. A theme throughout the book is how communal institutions evolved in place of individual responsibility. The change was gradual and not without opposition. How these changes came about and in what functional areas they occurred are discussed, as well as an analysis of Jewish support for the non-Jewish poor and non-Jewish support for the Jewish poor.

Education in an Altered World

Author	: Michelle Proyer
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 305
Release	: 2023-01-12
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1350282707

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This book brings together world-leading researchers and scholars in the fields of inclusive education, disability studies, refugee education and special education to examine critical and original perspectives of the meaning and consequences of educational and social exclusion. Drawing together, the contributors consider how children already vulnerable to exclusion might be supported and educated in and through times of global pandemic and crisis. They also identify broad prospects for education and inclusion in, through and beyond times of global pandemic and crisis.

The Modern City

Author	:
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 420
Release	: 1923
Genre	: Municipal government
ISBN	:

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City Record

Author	: Boston (Mass.)
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 1064
Release	: 1913
Genre	: Boston (Mass.)
ISBN	:

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The Joy of the Gospel

Author	: Pope Francis
Publisher	: Image
Total Pages	: 164
Release	: 2014-10-07
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0553419544

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The perfect gift! A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus… In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come.” – Pope Francis This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to overcome those hurdles, he emphasizes the importance of service to God and all his creation. Advocating for “the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned,” the Holy Father shows us how to respond to poverty and current economic challenges that affect us locally and globally. Ultimately, Pope Francis demonstrates how to develop a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, “to recognize the traces of God’s Spirit in events great and small.” Profound in its insight, yet warm and accessible in its tone, The Joy of the Gospel is a call to action to live a life motivated by divine love and, in turn, to experience heaven on earth. Includes a foreword by Robert Barron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith and James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

All You Can Eat

Author	: Joel Berg
Publisher	: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages	: 373
Release	: 2011-01-04
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1583229787

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With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as American as apple pie, and shows what it is like when your income is not enough to cover rising housing and living costs and put food on the table. Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; and the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare. He challenges the new president to confront the most unthinkable result of US poverty—hunger—and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good. A spirited call to action, All You Can Eat shows how practical solutions for hungry Americans will ultimately benefit America's economy and all of its citizens.

The Wealth of the Poor

Author	: Larry M. James
Publisher	: ACU Press
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2013
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 9780891123804

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Larry James appeared to be exactly where he was supposed to be-ministering with a large, suburban Dallas church. So why would he accept an invitation to direct a food pantry in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Dallas? What sealed the decision was something his wife, Brenda, said: "Larry, if you really believe all the things you've been telling us all these years, you need to take the job." So after fourteen years of preaching, he did. One day in the food pantry, Larry asked a woman named Josefina to help translate Spanish. She had come for assistance, but Josefina ended up helping any that day, and the next. Josefina came back the next day for nine years. Since that day two decades ago, Larry has been asking neighbors like Josefina to help solve their own problems, and this new way of serving side by side has transformed a small food pantry into one of the largest non-profit food distributors in the world. The organization-now called CitySquare-also develops housing for the formerly homeless and manages health clinics and community medical out reach in economically depressed and under-served places like East and South Dallas. This is an organizational success story you expect to see in the Wall Street journal, and yet it is like no other. Larry's journey provides the platform from which lie provides a practical, theological, market-savvy manual written for those who serve and invest in the work of urban transformation. Book jacket.