dependency

Uganda and Shropshire

by Eddie 13.08.2010

This is a great video and I hope everyone who visits this blog takes the four minutes it takes to watch it. If you are in Church leadership in the UK you might like to consider what your church could do to start a partnership like this one. That being said, there are a couple [...]

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Mission Partnerships: The Harsher Reality

by Eddie 25.05.2010

In my last post, I commented on Krish Kandiah’s blog post; Mission Partnerships the Harsh Reality. This is an excellent and thought provoking paper which is also included in the Lausanne Global Conversation and I recommend that you read it.  However, on reading what he wrote, I found myself thinking that Krish had missed out [...]

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Toxic Mission

by Eddie 03.05.2010

Onesimus has come up with an extremely controversial post which should be read by anyone involved in Christian mission from the West to the majority world. Here are some extracts to give you an idea of what he is saying, but you really do need to read the whole post: During these nearly four decades [...]

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Salvation is not Ours to Bestow

by Eddie 04.08.2009

The excellent Aid Watch blog has a superb quote from Michela Wrong’s book It’s Our Turn to Eat (I’ve not read it yet, but it’s about corruption in Kenya). Talking of the tendancy of Western Governments and pop stars to come up with solutions for Africa’s problems the book says: Worried Westerners, who so often [...]

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More on Malaria, Nets and Foreign Aid

by Eddie 16.04.2009

My thoughts on malaria and the aid industry in Africa stirred up some comments a few weeks back. Well, tmsruge weighs in with much stronger comments than I mine, inspired by some celebrity stunt in the US that I was unaware of. The solution to malaria, much like varied solutions to ending our addiction to [...]

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More on the aid problem…

by Eddie 30.03.2009

Rombo has just posted a very thoughtful piece commenting (among other things) on the wisdom of having Bono as an expert on aid for Africa… she compared it to “having an International musician like Amy Winehouse commenting on the US debt crisis rather than Obama. It makes no sense.” On the one hand, I really [...]

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I Dared to Criticize Comic Relief!

by Eddie 23.03.2009

Last week it was ‘Red Nose Day‘ in the UK, a day sponsored by a charity called Comic Relief who aim to raise lots of money for development projects around the world. Basically, Red Nose Day is a media sponsored fund raising day which manages to generate huge sums of money to help people all [...]

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Aid Pandemic

by Eddie 05.02.2009

Lingamish has taken a break from blogging about cats to post a thought provoking piece on the problem of aid and dependency in Africa. God sees this big world as a whole. You’re not the savior for Africa. You’re part of his Body working to heal the world. Find locals with the same burden as [...]

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Lausanne World Pulse: Jan 09

by Eddie 01.01.2009

The latest edition of the Lausanne World Pulse is out and has some very well worthwhile articles. The introductory piece has this lovely story: Through Alpha leaders, I learned of a Chinese woman (PhD student studying in the U.S.) who agreed to attend an Alpha course. An atheist, she nevertheless attended each week. After each [...]

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The Challenge of Dependency

by Eddie 24.11.2008

It is so easy for Westerners to think that the problems in the developing world can be answered by pouring money into it. This is true in the political sphere but also in the mission world. It is reletively easy to give money to projects and such like, but the results are not always as [...]

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The Dilema of Christian Mission

by Eddie 22.11.2008

This short video is well worth watching – I’ll try and get the whole DVD series when it is released and review it here. [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_zPsElsK4[/youtube] HT KrishK

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Dependency

by Eddie 07.06.2008

David Ker has posted a superb little thought piece on dependency in development work. The problem is we’re such easy prey. Idealists and change-the-world kinds of people are always blinded by their own self-righteousness to the human depravity that waits to divert their good intentions for personal gain… … There seems to be a new [...]

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