Poverty
BFJN’s focus area for 2024 was poverty. Our staff gathered resources and invested in learning so that they could help guide the BFJN community around this issue. The goal, as always, was to grow in understanding both from a practical and Biblical perspective and find ways to engage to make a difference.
In 2024 they sought to connect with and support organizations who were working with communities struggling with poverty, to learn about the systems and institutions that create and keep people in poverty here in the US and around the world and stand in solidarity with those experiencing poverty and those working to make a difference.
Recommended
Books
Wealth as Peril & Obligation by Sondra Wheeler
Hole in the Gospel by Rich Stearn
Unfinished by Rich Stearns
The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ron Sider
Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond
Broke in America by Joanne Samuel Goldblum
Money by Jacob Goldstein
White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
The Day the World Stopped Shopping by JB Mackinnon
Subversive Witness by Desmond Guillard
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley
Struggling with Evangelicalism by Dan Stringer
Articles &
Additional Resources
National Poverty in America – January 2024
The Surprising Poverty Levels Across the US
7 Key trends in Poverty in the US
Fight Global Poverty – An Experiment
16% of Kids in Poverty Break Out
Re-evaluating the Global Poverty Line
Holy Post with Matthew Desmond
New Proof that Poverty is Policy Choice
New stats – Poverty as a Policy Choice (OxFam)