Policies promoting global economic and food security will do far more to stem the tide of immigration than efforts to tighten borders and expel migrants, the world’s top anti-hunger official said during a Sept. 10 conference at Baylor University. “People…
Baylor initiative feeds 270,483 children in 43 states amid a global pandemic
If the coronavirus outbreak has proved anything, it’s that hunger and poverty must be addressed through creative and collaborative efforts between government, private-sector and faith-based individuals and organizations, according to Jeremy Everett, executive director of the Baylor University Collaborative on…
Where can we find saints today?
When he traveled, Martin Luther King Jr. often carried with him Jesus and the Disinherited, a small book by Howard Thurman, one of the spiritual guides of the Civil Rights Movement. In it, Thurman teaches that as a poor Jewish…
Nationwide, twice as many people are hungry during pandemic
Experts predicted food insecurity would skyrocket as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the nation’s economy. According to those who regularly minister to the poor and hungry, those predictions have turned out to be accurate. “It’s bigger than anything we’ve ever seen,”…
COVID-19 pandemic creating long-lasting food shortages for poor
The COVID-19 pandemic will leave a lasting impact on food-insecure Americans and the organizations that combat hunger.
Religion Notes: BPFNA’s new interim leader, a new hunger collaborative in Texas and CBFNC’s new leadership fund
She “was able to build a large and diverse network of support to reopen the seminary, rebuild the school and create new projects.”
Key gospel imperative lost in the hubub of a 24-hour news cycle
“We may not end poverty in the next decade, but I think we can take some significant steps toward reducing food-insecurity in the United States and around the globe.”
Liberation theologian prompts Baptist minister’s ‘Franciscan conversion’ to serve the poor
Jeremy Everett was a young Baptist seminary graduate grappling with exactly how to answer his calling — to serve the poor — when he found the answer in a kitchen in Waco, Texas, at a birthday party for a Dominican…