How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert Moody, 2012 £10.00 Pb 274pp ISBN 9780802457066 Who thinks Christians should help the poor? Most of us. Who has given much thought to how we should do that? Not many of us. When Helping Hurts explores...
David Chaput de Saintonge on maintaining empathy. Failure of compassionate behaviour in healthcare workers is an active public concern in the UK and a topic of research. The professionals who people look to for sensitive personal care are failing to provide it. Worse than that, patients are being actively...
David Cranston on the conflicting demands of home, work and patient care. We are all asked as children what we want to do when we grow up. At job interviews we may well have given the standard answer – that we wanted to care for people. And yet it is...
Sam Leinster on how Jesus turns prevailing attitudes on their heads. In the TV sitcom The Good Life (shot between 1975 and 1978), Tom Good (played by the actor Richard Briers who died recently) has a midlife crisis and turns his back on the rat race. With his wife Barbara,...