Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield

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On the Media’s Series on Poverty Myths

I don’t know how I missed On the Media’s powerful multi-part series on myths about poverty, but I did. Busted: America’s Poverty Myths draws on some of the same research that I use in my critiques of the case against charity. This series is both a powerful indictment of how poverty is portrayed in the media and a helpful corrective. If you don’t have time to read book after book about the reality, psychology, and economics of poverty, I highly recommend listening to this series… repeatedly.

Part 1: The Poverty Tour

Part 2: Who Deserves to be Poor?

Part 3: Rags to Riches

Part 4: When the Safety Net Doesn’t Catch You

Part 5: Breaking News Consumer Handbook: Poverty in America Edition

I also recommend downloading, printing, and using the consumer’s handbook that On the Media has produced.

Sarah and Hagar

In our trauma, we turn to sin as a balm for the pain. In our sin we traumatize one another. And there are only so many ways that the cycle can end.

François-Joseph Navez, "Agar et Ismaël Dans le Désert" via Wikimedia Commons

Eve

The world of masks and hierarchies and inside and outside is not the world that God created. It is a world that is broken.

Artist Unknown, "Adam and Eve Before God After Their Sin - Mosaic in Monreale Cathedra" via Wikimedia Commons

Junia

Either way, they erased Junia. Either way, they erased this woman who was prominent among the apostles. And who the early church had recognized as a woman and an apostle.

Artist Unknown, "Andronicus, Athanasius of Christianoupolis and Junia" via Wikimedia Commons

About

I’m a pastor, an author, and a nonprofit development and communications professional. My passion, my mission, and my calling is bringing people together to do good, with a particular focus on serving people who are experiencing poverty and other forms of marginalization.

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