First Things RSS Feed - Amy L. Sherman https://www.firstthings.com/author/amy-l-sherman en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:27 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/amy-l-sherman 60 Ture Mercy and Charity https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/10/ture-mercy-and-charity https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/10/ture-mercy-and-charity Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0400 True Mercy and Charity

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]]> Tough Love https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/12/tough-love https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/12/tough-love Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00:00 -0500 Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes
By Marvin Olasky
Free Press, 201 pages, $21

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]]> Where You Lead I Will Follow? https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/where-you-lead-i-will-follow https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/02/where-you-lead-i-will-follow Mon, 01 Feb 1993 00:00:00 -0500 Several observers have pointed out the increasing gap in social and political attitudes and theological commitments between the leadership and the laity of the old-line/mainline churches. The average Episcopalian, Methodist, or Presbyterian in the pew, the studies show, tends to be more theologically orthodox and socially and politically conservative than the average bureaucrat at the New York denominational headquarters.

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]]> Evangelicals and Economic Development https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/08/evangelicals-and-economic-development https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/08/evangelicals-and-economic-development Sat, 01 Aug 1992 00:00:00 -0400 Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner-city Washington. Though they all had their own thoughts about what caused the poverty they had witnessed, everyone strongly agreed that the most effective strategy for relieving it was one centered on evangelism. One man who’d been working with the homeless for years told the students he could tell simply by a person’s eyes whether he or she was going to “make it.” The ones who have hope in their eyes do, he continued, and bringing them that hope required addressing their spiritual as well as physical needs.

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]]> Evangelicals and Capitalism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/02/evangelicals-and-capitalism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/02/evangelicals-and-capitalism Sat, 01 Feb 1992 00:00:00 -0500 With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism
by Craig M. Gay, foreword by Peter L. Berger
Eerdmans, 276 pages, $19.95

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]]> Christians and Economic Development https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/03/christians-and-economic-development https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/03/christians-and-economic-development Thu, 01 Mar 1990 00:00:00 -0500 The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called North-South debate. A burst of revisionist thinking has affected recent discussions of Third World economic development and may offer a harbinger of better policies vis-a-vis the world’s poor. There are signs of an emerging consensus that the development approach followed until very recently—one that emphasized large wealth transfers from the developed to the underdeveloped world, worried about the “population explosion” draining natural resources, and questioned capitalism’s ability to “trickle down” prosperity to the masses—has not brought sustained and stable growth to the Third World. Revisionists have questioned Club of Rome pessimism about the prospects for world development and recaptured the enthusiasm for market development strategies that characterized post-World War II U.S. foreign aid policy.

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