Toxic Charity: How the Church Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It
Oct 2011 · Harper Collins
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Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies) in Atlanta, the voice of the Urban Perspectives newsletter, and the author of Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, has been at the forefront of urban ministry activism for forty years. Now, in the vein of Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty, Richard Stearns’s The Hole in Our Gospel, and Gregory Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart, his groundbreaking Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting, real-world change.
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Alan Webb
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July 22, 2014
I've lived as one of the blessed and as a recipient of mercy & missions, "done for". I am unemployed of late, so I depend on "done for" (pun intended) to keep me afloat. It is in my self-interest to perpetuate a broken method of mercy & missions. I see the trap of it in my own life and that of my friends. It's not working. Lupton is right and "doing with", though it ruins how I currently pay my bills, is exactly what we should be doing. Great, challenging book.
Jesse Dotterer
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April 16, 2014
Challenges the traditional charity model that is common to the western world and inspires incremental thoughtful change to help us all.
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October 28, 2023
Absotobely lycious My babytonight
About the author
ROBERT D. LUPTON is founder and president of FCS (Focused Community Strategies) Urban Ministries and author of Toxic Charity; Theirs Is the Kingdom; Return Flight; Renewing the City; Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life; and the widely circulated “Urban Perspectives” newsletter. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia.To learn more, visit www.fcsministries.org.
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