Resources
Links—The following are websites that can provide you with information to encourage, show you how others are advocating, and offer you opportunities to get involved. This is by no means a complete list but it can put you on the right track to become more informed.
1. http://www.tearfund.org/ –Tearfund works through local churches and Christian agencies to open up brighter futures for the world’s poorest communities.
2. http://www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm –World Vision is an international Christian relief and development organization working to promote the well being of all people-especially children.
3. www.30hourfamine.org –30 Hour Famine is an international youth movement to fight hunger.
4. www.actionaid.org –Helps poor people around the world. Site includes campaign information and downloadable fact sheets by country.
5. www.unmillenniumproject.org – A summary of the Millennium Development Goals and task force reports.
6. www.whiteband.org –A global site encouraging action against poverty.
7. www.aidsalliance.org –Is the new website of the AIDS Alliance where a number of helpful resources can be downloaded free.
8. www.jubilee-centre.org –The goal of this UK centre is Christians inspired and equipped to shape social and political life according to biblical principles and its task is research into and promotion of the biblical vision for society and its contemporary relevance. They have a number of resources including some Cambridge Papers free online.
9. www.calltorenewal.net –Sojourners/Call to Renewal’s mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. We work with a national network of churches, faith-based organizations, and individuals to overcome poverty in America.
10. www.who.int/en/ –The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on April 7, 1948. WHO’s objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO’s Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The information offered on these websites may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Christians Ending Poverty.
Books
Another World is Possible if… by Susan George (Verso, 2004), also A Fate Worse than Debt (Grove Press, 1990), and How the Other Half Dies (Allanheld Osmun, 1977)
Beyond Guilt: Christian Response to Suffering by George S. Johnson (Adventure Publications Third Printing, 2002)
Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis by Donald Messer (Augsburg Fortress, 2004)
Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith by George McGovern, Bob Dole and Donald Messer (Augsburg Fortress, 2005)
Give Us This Day: A Lutheran Proposal for Ending World Hunger by Craig Nessan (Augsburg Fortress, 2003)
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It by Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005)
Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World by David Backmann and Arthur Simon (InterVarsity, 1999)
Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda (Fortress, 2002)
How Much is Enough? Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture by Arthur Simon (Baker, 2003)
Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice, Year A edited by Larry Hollar (Liturgical Press, 2004)
Just Generosity by Ron Sider (Baker Books, 1999)
Prayers for the Common Good edited by A. Jean Lesher (Pilgrim Press, 1998)
Property for People, Not for Profit by Ulrich Duchrow and Franz Hinkelammert (Zed Books 2004)
Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel De La Torre (Orbis, 2002)
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study by Ronald Sider (W Publishing Group, updated 1997)
Simpler Living Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective edited by Michael Shut (Living the Good News, 2001)
The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life by Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler (Orbis, 1999)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (Penguin Press, 2005)
The Working Poor: The Invisible in America by David Shipler (A Borzoi Book, 2004)
Through the Eyes of Another: Intercultural Reading of the Bible edited by Hans De Wit and others (Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2005)
Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes by Robert McAfee Brown (Westminster, 1984)
Walking with the Poor and Working with the Poor by Bryant Myers (Orbis, both books in 1999)
What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World by Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2005)
