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Here are a variety of Christian reflections on poverty. Please feel free to use them. If you would like to contribute to this section, please contact us.
An ideal to pursue
Church Action on Poverty 25th Anniversary address by CAP's Chairperson Lewis Rose, Manchester Cathedral, 13 July 2007
Paying a Living Wage
Rev Inderjit Bhogal, last year's President of the Methodist Conference, reflects on his experience of living off the equivalent of the minimum wage for lent.
Redefining Wealth
Award winning journalist and author Antonia Swinson explores the idea of 'Social Capital' as an alternative to wealth.
The Disengaged and the Trapped
By Adrian Wait, Community Development Worker, (Currently – unemployed). A Person.
Ten reasons why justice is essential to the Gospels...
Someone asked me recently why justice-seeking figured so strongly in my approach to mission. I think they meant “as distinct from evangelism”. We were talking about asylum seekers.
Make UK Poverty History
Why is it that in the fifth richest country in the world, poverty continues to blight the lives of far too many people?
Bringing Populorum Progressio into the 21st Century
Jim Hynes, Catholic lay activist from North Wales reflects on the relevence of Populorum Progessio to poverty and globalisation today.
Church of England offers prayers for the jobless
