        item: #1 of 118
          id: crda-189
      author: Offutt, Stephen; Reynolds, Amy 
       title: Christian Ideas of Development: Understanding the current theories, networks, and priorities of Accord Organizations
        date: 2019
       words: 9897
      flesch: 49
     summary: Straightforward inquiries have thus unveiled the complexity and variation in the ways that faith shows up in development organizations and initiatives. Christian development organizations are part of this broader awareness (Reynolds and Offutt 2014), but this new emphasis on advocacy emerged after the transformation paradigm had already become established.
    keywords: accord; advocacy; christian; church; community; development; faith; leaders; members; organizations; poverty; religion; research; respondents; survey; work
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          id: crda-193
      author: Greer, Peter
       title: Together: A Collaborative Approach to Relief, Development, and Advocacy
        date: 2019
       words: 5166
      flesch: 52
     summary: Instead of seeking to win points with donors, they seek to celebrate all that God is doing through a united front with a variety of organizations. What would it look like if we regularly recognized other organizations in our space and celebrated what we were all doing together?
    keywords: development; esperanza; faith; god; kingdom; organizations; poverty; relief; work; world
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          id: crda-199
      author: Oladimeji, Babatunde Enoch
       title: Kent Annan. You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2018.
        date: 2019
       words: 1299
      flesch: 61
     summary: $13.50 In this troubling and challenging book, Kent Annan explains that the United States has for many years granted legal residency to roughly one million immigrants a year, of which 75,000 have typically been refugees. In light of this reality, Annan argues that we should welcome refugees and immigrants.
    keywords: annan; immigrants; refugees
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        item: #4 of 118
          id: crda-205
      author: Williams, Dan
       title: Bryant L. Myers. Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, And Our Hyperconnected World. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017.
        date: 2019
       words: 994
      flesch: 45
     summary: However, because God’s Word is sharper than any two- edged sword, Myers does not shy away from addressing how these affirmations should cut deeply into how we engage globalization. In his historical overview of globalization, Myers notes a rising tide of compassion and concern for human development following World War II.
    keywords: globalization; god
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        item: #5 of 118
          id: crda-207
      author: Norman, Ray; Odotei, Odoi
       title: Faith Integration and Christian Witness in Relief and Development: Reflections and Practical Guidance for Field Teams
        date: 2019
       words: 9645
      flesch: 43
     summary: Methods of engaging local faith leaders CHOs are increasingly exploring the benefits of engaging with faith communities, especially through faith leaders. For its part, World Vision has championed the engagement of faith communities through its Channels of Hope (CoH) model to promote child well-being.
    keywords: christian; communities; community; development; faith; field; organization; staff; teams; vision; witness; work; world
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        item: #6 of 118
          id: crda-213
      author: Clapp, Rebekah
       title: Heather D. Curtis. Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
        date: 2019
       words: 1033
      flesch: 32
     summary: These secular forms of aid continued to increase in the early twentieth century, even as the Christian Herald moved from the center of American foreign aid efforts and transitioned to focusing on evangelistic efforts (267). It is clear in Curtiss’ narrative of the Christian Herald that a faith-based organization was not only successful, but led the nation’s efforts in philanthropy during this time.
    keywords: american; christian; curtiss
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        item: #7 of 118
          id: crda-215
      author: James, Manohar
       title: Rebecca Samuel Shah and Joel Carpenter, Eds. Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development and Religious Freedom. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018.
        date: 2019
       words: 1276
      flesch: 31
     summary: While enumerating the reasons why some American evangelicals emphasized social engagement and economic development beyond personal spiritual transformation while others did not, Arrington shows a few examples of Indian Christian practices and theologies on holism and suggests that “American evangelicals engaged in social action must not only look at what God is doing outside the West, but hear the interpretation of what God is doing from theologians from outside the West.” The first part informs how Christian conversions have been negatively viewed and portrayed by Hindu nationalists, although many converts preserve their Indian identity and contribute to the development of the underprivileged and marginalized people around them.
    keywords: book; christian; hindu; india
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        item: #8 of 118
          id: crda-217
      author: Kuperus, Tracy
       title: Peter Greer and Chris Horst, with Jill Heisey,. Rooting for Rivals: How Collaboration and Generosity Increase the Impact of Leaders, Charities, and Churches. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2018.
        date: 2019
       words: 977
      flesch: 55
     summary: The scarcity mindset runs rife among faith-based leaders as organizations seek to secure more for their clan, even when leaders know, deep down, that other organizations have greater needs (111). Greer and Horst go on to provide examples of organizations that have embraced ‘open sourcing’ with their rivals and the unexpected benefits in doing so.
    keywords: faith; organizations
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        item: #9 of 118
          id: crda-395
      author: Hernandez, Carlos; Hoksbergen, Roland; Parsons, Katerina; Ver Beek, Kurt
       title: For a Government that Works: ASJ’s Theory of Change, with a Case Study of Their Efforts in Education
        date: 2019
       words: 11711
      flesch: 47
     summary: But perfect love drives out fear…” ASJ leaders emphasize how important it is to be brave in following Christ’s example as they work not for their own interests, but for the well-being of the most vulnerable. Threats of physical harm to ASJ staff are common.
    keywords: advocacy; asj; change; christian; corruption; development; education; government; honduras; institutions; organizations; people; public; reforms; research; schools; society; support; teachers; work
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        item: #10 of 118
          id: crda-397
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland ; Offutt, Stephen
       title: Editors’ Introduction to Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy: The Journal of the Accord Network
        date: 2019
       words: 949
      flesch: 53
     summary: The Journal of the Accord Network Roland Hoksbergen and Stephen Offutt Is Christian faith relevant to how we address global poverty, imagine a better life, and work together to ensure that everyone enjoys the opportunity to thrive in the world we share together? We were also aware of how committed faith-based organizations were to integrating Christian faith into their work, but we also knew that the conversation about how to do that needed to grow.
    keywords: development; work
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        item: #11 of 118
          id: crda-403
      author: Bloem, Jeffrey
       title: Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor
        date: 2020
       words: 1351
      flesch: 54
     summary: Effective altruism can be characterized as an unsentimental view of charitable giving, seeking to maximize social benefits in the most cost-effective ways. The seventh step, identification, diverges from effective altruism and, in some cases, runs in the opposite direction.
    keywords: book; development; samaritan; wydick
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          id: crda-405
      author: Allaby, Martin
       title: Christianity and Control of Corruption, Past and Present
        date: 2020
       words: 6679
      flesch: 43
     summary: Political corruption is a manipulation of policies, institutions and rules of procedure in the allocation of resources and financing by political decision makers, who abuse their position to sustain their https://fpinetwork.wordpress.com/ Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 1(2), Winter 2020 Allaby, Protestant Christianity and Control of Corruption, Past and Present 84 power, status and wealth (Transparency International 2019a). Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 1(2), Winter 2020 Allaby, Protestant Christianity and Control of Corruption, Past and Present 83 Protestant Christianity and Control of Corruption, Past and Present Martin Allaby This article is structured around five key statements about corruption: 1.
    keywords: allaby; bank; christian; christianity; control; corruption; countries; development; international; protestant; reform; society; world
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          id: crda-407
      author: Kis, Adam; Cabus, Jovy; Romo, Tzaddi; Welch, Cheyanne
       title: “We are poor, but we are developed”: Differential Perceptions of “Development” among Key Stakeholder Groups in the Philippines
        date: 2020
       words: 10713
      flesch: 50
     summary: Development beneficiaries in communities where ADRA was working. Studying the meaning of development terms is clearly not a fringe exercise.
    keywords: adra; beneficiaries; development; differences; government; groups; meaning; people; perceptions; philippines; qualitative; respondents; stakeholder; study; survey; table; terms
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          id: crda-409
      author: Fyfe, Rosie 
       title: Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream
        date: 2020
       words: 1129
      flesch: 47
     summary: The book also usefully draws on Charles Taylor’s work to emphasize the role of spiritual forces in community development work. Brian Fikkert, a professor of economics and community development at Covenant College in the United States, co-wrote the book with his colleague Kelly Kapic, professor of theological studies.
    keywords: book; development; poverty
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          id: crda-413
      author: Vroegindewey, Ryan
       title: God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism
        date: 2020
       words: 1148
      flesch: 45
     summary: I met him and his family, walked around his village, and chatted with local World Vision staff. My first college text on international development was Walking with the Poor by Bryant Myers, a former VP of World Vision.
    keywords: development; king; vision; world
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          id: crda-417
      author: Check, Kristen; Green, Rodney; Kumar, Subodh
       title: Toward Laying the Foundation for Christ-Centered Monitoring & Evaluation
        date: 2021
       words: 6176
      flesch: 46
     summary: Christian M&E professionals who seek to ascribe to sector-wide best practices (e.g. AEA), can also apply the principles that guide Christ- centered organizations that seek to alleviate poverty in Jesus’ name. https://www.accordnetwork.org/ https://www.accordnetwork.org/integral https://www.accordnetwork.org/integral https://www.eval.org/p/cm/ld/fid=51 Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 1(2), Winter 2020 Check, Green, and Kumar, Towards Laying a Foundation for Christ-Centered Monitoring & Evaluation 65 Layer 6: Towards a Framework for Christ- Centered M&E There are many passages from the Bible that can inform thinking about monitoring and evaluation from a Christ-centered perspective.
    keywords: ccos; christ; christian; development; evaluation; faith; god; kingdom; m&e; monitoring; organizations; principles
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        item: #17 of 118
          id: crda-419
      author: Slimbach, Richard
       title: Global Development in the Anthropocene
        date: 2020
       words: 9071
      flesch: 44
     summary: Thirteen years later, their language is even more unequivocal: “Climate change is the single greatest threat to humankind in our lifetime… Forget making poverty history; climate change is making poverty permanent” (Author’s italics) (Christian Aid, 2019). Genesis 2:15 instructs us to watch over creation and take care of it, yet the most popular evangelical development texts largely omit any discussion of environmental breakdown and climate change.
    keywords: action; adaptation; advocacy; anthropocene; carbon; change; christian; cities; climate; development; earth; emissions; energy; fossil; fuel; global; life; people; relief; slimbach; urban; world
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        item: #18 of 118
          id: crda-421
      author: Dykema, Gene
       title: A Walking Disaster: What Surviving Katrina and Cancer Taught Me About Faith and Resilience 
        date: 2020
       words: 1245
      flesch: 71
     summary: At much of its core, Jamie Aten’s memoir is not about disaster relief. If the academic pattern formed his disposition toward disasters—and there are at least hints that it did— things changed on the day he received the news of his own personal disaster: stage 4 colon cancer.
    keywords: aten; disaster; relief
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        item: #19 of 118
          id: crda-423
      author: Miller, Daniel
       title: Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
        date: 2020
       words: 854
      flesch: 41
     summary: It was close contact with non-Western individuals that gave these “missionary cosmopolitans” their deep convictions that Americans should be more respectful of foreigners and more critical of their own nation and religion. And instead of touting the superiority of Protestant Christianity and Western culture, they ended up challenging their sending churches to abandon denominational provincialism and encouraging all Americans to show greater respect for non-Western people.
    keywords: hollinger; missionaries; missions
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        item: #20 of 118
          id: crda-427
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: Editor's Introduction: A Call for Papers
        date: 2020
       words: 588
      flesch: 56
     summary: What questions or issues have contemporary RDA theories and practices not addressed as well as Christians might be able to? Put simply, what particular theories, topics, and/or issues should Christian RDA academics and practitioners be thinking about, researching, discussing, or commenting on?
    keywords: rda
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          id: crda-429
      author: Sarma, Jaisankar
       title: Importance of Role and Agency of Fieldworkers in Transformational Development Work by Christian NGOs 
        date: 2020
       words: 5836
      flesch: 40
     summary: Understanding development as a social change process and not merely as time and space bound projects has significant implications for development NGOs – the agency of fieldworkers and that of other actors, their relationships, and network patterns become critical considerations in thinking about and planning for development. Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 2(1), Summer 2020 Sarma, Importance of Role and Agency of Fieldworkers in Transformational Development Work by Christian NGOs 20 Importance of Role and Agency of Fieldworkers in Transformational Development Work by Christian NGOs Jaisankar Sarma This article makes the case for the agency and the role of fieldworkers as critical considerations in community development projects of NGOs and in transformational development work undertaken by Christian NGOs.
    keywords: agency; christian; communities; community; development; fieldworkers; god; ngos; relationships; results; role
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        item: #22 of 118
          id: crda-433
      author: Fyfe, Rosie 
       title: Liturgies of Development: Formation for Working Among the Poor
        date: 2020
       words: 5446
      flesch: 52
     summary: This requirement to be fluent in the languages of secular development and one’s own faith tradition can feel at times to border on a kind of cultural schizophrenia. Based on a practical theology approach, this article argues that Christians should be formed for their work in development through participating in corporate worship and illustrates this by outlining how one expression of liturgical worship can be formational for Christian development practitioners.
    keywords: christian; church; development; field; god; kingdom; liturgies; secular; world
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        item: #23 of 118
          id: crda-435
      author: Green, Rodney; Mallonee, Nathan; Check, Kristen 
       title: MERL in the Time of COVID-19: Four Case Studies
        date: 2020
       words: 8599
      flesch: 35
     summary: 2 Below are four case studies from three Accord Network organizations and one ARA organization that are adapting MERL practices during this time. In addition, the authors share guidance on how Christ-centered organizations should adapt MERL approaches according to good principles in a broader effort to discern God’s leading in the midst of challenging external circumstances, internal organizational constraints and opportunities, and an unknown future.
    keywords: case; covid-19; data; development; evaluation; food; hope; icm; international; kenya; merl; monitoring; organizations; relief; studies; team; time
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          id: crda-437
      author: Moncivaiz, Benji
       title: Call for Justice: From Practice to Theory and Back: Book Review 
        date: 2020
       words: 1377
      flesch: 50
     summary: $26.00 In an exchange of letters between practitioner Kurt Ver Beek, co-founder of the Association for a More Just Society (ASJ), and philosopher Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Call for Justice unpacks what it means to pursue justice by balancing examples of people doing justice work with the theoretical and theological frameworks that support it. The authors’ personal experiences with justice work, the breakdown of the ASJ model into its key parts, and integration of ASJ’s work into larger global concepts of justice, rights, and other global movements successfully make a way for the lessons learned at ASJ to be applied on the global stage and in Christians’ personal lives.
    keywords: asj; government; justice
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          id: crda-439
      author: Padilla DeBorst, Ruth 
       title: Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity, By David Swartz: Book Review 
        date: 2020
       words: 1318
      flesch: 33
     summary: This case study sets the ground for the other chapters by demonstrating that, while Christian Americanism influenced global expressions of evangelical Christianity, US American evangelicals also received significant pushback and were impacted by global Christians. Almolonga, Guatemala; and Uganda, portraying how global Evangelical expressions not only resist being boxed into US American categories, but also challenge the very construct of evangelicalism, as well as reverse the traditional direction of mission.
    keywords: american; christian; mission; world
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        item: #26 of 118
          id: crda-441
      author: Hampton, Thomas
       title: Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota...: Book Review
        date: 2020
       words: 1095
      flesch: 39
     summary: Importantly, the necessity for aid exists precisely because of inequality in the relationship, so ignoring it is unhelpful to understanding the relationship’s dynamics. Because of historical colonial relationships there are varying financial and moral debts expressed between the US aid workers and the recipients of aid in Madagascar, but of course aid today cannot fully cancel out the effects of earlier colonialism.
    keywords: aid; christian; madagascar
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        item: #27 of 118
          id: crda-443
      author: Esayas, Yacob 
       title: The End of Hunger. Renewed Hope for Feeding the World : Book Review 
        date: 2020
       words: 1144
      flesch: 58
     summary: The authors make a case that the centrality of food security in stabilizing a country is unequivocal. He continues, “we already grow enough food to feed every person living on Earth.
    keywords: book; food; hunger
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        item: #28 of 118
          id: crda-445
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: Editor's Introduction: Our Mission in Trying Times
        date: 2020
       words: 543
      flesch: 42
     summary: The article by Rosie Fyfe wonders how Christian development workers are affected by their almost total immersion in the waters of secular development theory, practice, and general culture. Our hope is to cultivate a forum where thoughtful Christ-followers can share their research, reflections, and analyses and discuss and critique all this in community as we work to learn all we can in the broad areas of relief, development, and advocacy.
    keywords: development; relief
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        item: #29 of 118
          id: crda-453
      author: Huff, James; Bueno, Ronald
       title: Building Community Capacity During a Crisis: The Response of NGOs, Local Churches, and CBOs to COVID-19 in El Salvador
        date: 2021
       words: 7972
      flesch: 43
     summary: We have also been able to regularly consult with and receive informative feedback from staff and community leaders about the findings explored in this paper. The building of local community capacity is a stated core outcome of ENLACE’s theory of change, and Chaskin’s model provides a helpful framework for identifying the key assumptions embedded within the organization’s work with church and community leaders.
    keywords: building; capacity; church; community; community capacity; community leaders; crisis; development; enlace; families; leaders; salvador
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        item: #30 of 118
          id: crda-459
      author: Gross, Elise; Paltzer, Jason
       title: Effects of a Virtual Church-Based Wellness Circle Program in Chile During COVID-19
        date: 2022
       words: 4000
      flesch: 50
     summary: Figure 1: KW Chile wellness circle structure The wellness circle program includes three areas, including preventive care community workshops, wellness circles, and volunteer coach training. Figure 1 displays the structure of the program from KW Chile program staff, the local church and community partners, to individual Wellness Circles.
    keywords: chile; christian; circle; community; health; participants; program; wellness
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        item: #31 of 118
          id: crda-463
      author: Lowe, Benjamin; Lamb, Rachel; Padilla DeBorst, Ruth
       title: Reconciling Conservation and Development in an Era of Global Environmental Change: A Theocentric Approach
        date: 2021
       words: 11700
      flesch: 47
     summary: As its name suggests, theocentrism centers God and assents to God’s will and governance (Gustafson 1981). It emphasizes that “‘the earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it’ (Ps 24:1) … God is the source of creation; it is his amazing handiwork, and to God belongs ownership and rule over what he has created” (Gushee 2010, 247).
    keywords: advocacy; approach; biodiversity; christian; community; conservation; creation; deborst; development; environment; god; human; international; lamb; lowe; nature; padilla; people; relief; rest; theocentrism; value; world
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        item: #32 of 118
          id: crda-467
      author: Reader, Gregory
       title: Missional Theology as a Framework of Evaluation for Transformational Development
        date: 2022
       words: 7485
      flesch: 46
     summary: Evaluation of TD effectiveness in Christian mission should therefore take into account whether it influences people to consider the significance of what God has done and is doing in history to reconcile all things to himself. The correlation between these aims and the historic emphasis of Christian mission on reconciliation with God, neighbor, and all creation, is fertile ground for new frameworks and metrics to evaluate TD’s effectiveness not only as development work, but also as Christian mission.
    keywords: christian; church; development; evangelism; god; human; life; mission; newbigin; people; theology; world
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        item: #33 of 118
          id: crda-469
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Woolcock, Michael 
       title: COVID, Climate Change, Conflict, and Global Poverty: An Interview with Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist at the World Bank
        date: 2021
       words: 9953
      flesch: 60
     summary: It is about a two-year process, and not every country is collecting poverty data every year. We were chugging away on that until April, when it became clear that COVID was not going to be just a small little blip on the screen but instead a historic and existential event, and of great consequence for global poverty.
    keywords: bank; change; climate; conflict; countries; covid; data; development; people; poverty; report; world
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        item: #34 of 118
          id: crda-471
      author: Butler, Tiffany
       title: Bob Mitchell, Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference : Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1257
      flesch: 37
     summary: Myers notes that Mitchell’s Faith- Based Development addresses the need of the hour— explaining why Christian development agencies have been successful at professionalizing without secularizing, and also providing a roadmap for how that might be accomplished. When FBOs operate faithfully in their field, they are often seen as devout adherents, and a mutual respect is fostered with other theistic societies, as seen among Christian faith workers in moderate Sunni contexts (48) Secular organization that do not share a theistic affinity with communities, then, are automatically seen as outsiders and their ‘neutrality’ is at times perceived as a form of insensitive imperialism (83).
    keywords: christian; development; faith
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          id: crda-473
      author: Timaná Kure, Carlos
       title: Jacquineau Azetsop SJ, Ed. Integral Human Development. Challenges to Sustainability and Democracy : Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 900
      flesch: 37
     summary: Fausto Gianfreda, SJ offers a conceptual analysis of how integral human development relates to integral ecology, focusing especially on the relationship between governance and sustainability. Chapters are organized into three main sections, the first providing an anthropological framework for integral human development in light of the most relevant challenges of our time.
    keywords: book; development; social
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          id: crda-475
      author: Dejean, Catriona; Kurlberg, Nina 
       title: Dena Freeman, Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1948
      flesch: 47
     summary: Indeed, Tearfund’s participation in God’s mission to seek justice in all spheres of life might result in the organization carrying out the same activities as so- called secular organizations, since from this perspective working to enable communities to access clean water is not simply a social or material action, but one that is deeply spiritual (c.f. 139). Tearfund was awarding grants to missionaries and partner organizations through both an Overseas Relief and Development Department and an Evangelism and Christian Education Department (52).
    keywords: development; faith; freeman; tearfund
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          id: crda-479
      author: John, TS
       title: David Greenlee, Mark Galpin, and Paul Bendor-Samuel, Eds. Undivided Witness: Jesus Followers, Community Development, and Least Reached Communities : Book Review
        date: 2021
       words: 1684
      flesch: 43
     summary: In addition to providing helpful principles and addressing important issues, the book may kick-start further discussion on the most biblically sound strategies for integrating Christian community development with church planting efforts among least reached peoples. The editors hope the book will “help dissolve the perceived tension between [church planting and community development] (12)”.
    keywords: book; christian; community; development; principles
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        item: #38 of 118
          id: crda-483
      author: Williams, Andrew
       title: David C. Kirkpatrick, A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1185
      flesch: 37
     summary: In that context, Latin American evangelical leaders grew wary of a gospel of the wealthy and its lack of interest in economic and political structures that perpetuate oppression, racism, and poverty. Third, for scholars interested in themes related to Christian humanitarianism, as well as Latin American Christianity or theology, this book is an intricate, perhaps definitive, record of one important movement.
    keywords: american; book; christian; latin
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          id: crda-491
      author: Purvis, Courtney
       title: Do Savings Groups Work? : Six Years of Evidence from the DRC
        date: 2021
       words: 7493
      flesch: 60
     summary: A majority of World Relief SFL groups in Kako CEZ use 10% interest rate. The Savix calculates this as the prorated cost of the program divided by total number of savings group members.
    keywords: church; community; cycle; groups; members; program; relief; savings; sfl; share; world; world relief
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        item: #40 of 118
          id: crda-497
      author: Bloem, Jeffrey
       title: Being Light : Navigating the Blogosphere for Faith-Based Development Professionals
        date: 2021
       words: 2112
      flesch: 51
     summary: Blogs and podcasts are a bit like lighthouses. Without blogs we would not have as much access to the knowledge we need to perform our work effectively.
    keywords: advocacy; blogs; development; faith; podcasts; post
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        item: #41 of 118
          id: crda-499
      author: Gramby-Sobukwe, Sharon
       title: Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World: Book Review
        date: 2021
       words: 1440
      flesch: 50
     summary: A collection of various types of prayers, from calls to worship and benedictions, prayers of thanksgiving, confession and intercession, topical prayers addressing the lived experiences of the destitute, to complete liturgical sequences, Liturgies reconsiders the meaning and purpose of prayer. It steps decidedly into the center of demands for decolonizing everything, especially worship, focusing on prayers, and liturgical practices of people from outside the metropoles of this global order.
    keywords: faith; god; prayers; world
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        item: #42 of 118
          id: crda-501
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: International Development and Local Faith Actors: Ideological and Cultural Encounters: Book Review
        date: 2021
       words: 1600
      flesch: 47
     summary: It is this second challenge that the editors and contributors to this volume especially take on as they work toward understanding and improving the encounters among international faith-based organizations of the Global North and the local faith actors (LFAs) and local faith communities (LFCs) of the Global South. As Eyber and Jailobaeva explain in chapter 14, wives of local faith leaders are influential leaders in their own right, and their voices make a big difference through informal channels.
    keywords: book; development; faith; work
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        item: #43 of 118
          id: crda-505
      author: Bueno, David
       title: Gangs and Development: The Difficulties of Transformational Development in Gang-Controlled Communities in El Salvador 
        date: 2022
       words: 10790
      flesch: 50
     summary: For example, he explains how one of the only ways gang members are allowed to leave the gang is through religious conversion. The common narrative that gang members are disenfranchised young people motivated by criminal enterprise has been challenged by criminologist Steve Dudley.
    keywords: bueno; christian; churches; communities; community; control; development; gang; martín; members; myers; organizations; program; salvador; san; school; support; water
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        item: #44 of 118
          id: crda-507
      author: Kumar, Subodh
       title: Toward Building Evidence of Kingdom Impact
        date: 2022
       words: 8481
      flesch: 48
     summary: Program theory, which is the combination of the theory of change and theory of action, becomes the basis for impact evaluation (Funnel and Rogers 2011). Or what does evaluation evidence say about their belief and unbelief (Kumar 2017)?
    keywords: analysis; ccos; data; development; evaluation; evidence; framework; god; impact; kingdom; kingdom impact; kumar; measurement; mission
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        item: #45 of 118
          id: crda-509
      author: Adelekan, Tokunbo
       title: Christian Compassion: A Charitable History: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1416
      flesch: 35
     summary: As Lynn uses these to choose and frame what, who, and how to include in this history, he traces the evolution of Christian compassion through the epochs, from small-scale individual and communal efforts geared to those in need, to the development of the church as the patron of the poor, to the institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of care during Christendom, and to the explosion of parachurch organizations fostered in a significant way by the globalized and competitive missions movement that has resulted in what Lynn sees today as three streams of Christian charity: the liberation and justice stream, peace and humanitarianism, and mutual aid and community development. Therefore, given the radical contingency and intractable Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 3(2), Winter 2022 Adelekan, Book Review 52 changeability of all human affairs, it is important that we approach the grand scheme of Christian witness with a degree of epistemic humility and philosophical irony.
    keywords: christian; church; compassion; lynn
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        item: #46 of 118
          id: crda-511
      author: Dean, Judy
       title: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1924
      flesch: 54
     summary: Friedman argues that positive developments in economic thinking occurred as religious thinking became “more expansive.” And such religious controversy was influential in shaping economic thinking.
    keywords: development; friedman; smith; thinking
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        item: #47 of 118
          id: crda-513
      author: Greene, Katrina
       title: Development In Mission: A Guide for Transforming Global Poverty and Ourselves: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 2497
      flesch: 36
     summary: Abilene Christian University Press, 2021, $20.99 Lynn, Gailey, and Reese have written a thought-provoking, theologically-informed, and engaging book that challenges Global North Christian congregations and individuals to humbly, reflectively, and relationally engage in poverty alleviation. For example, in the authors’ discussion of the principle “Attend to Context,” which involves Global North Christian congregations and individuals participating in a contextualization of the cultures in which they intend to serve, I was reminded of the scholarship of Al Tizon.
    keywords: authors; book; christian; development
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        item: #48 of 118
          id: crda-515
      author: Sebahene, Alfred
       title: Relentless Love: Living Out Integral Mission to Combat Poverty, Injustice and Conflict: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1459
      flesch: 54
     summary: In fact, I see the book as a wake- up call for the global Church, where evangelical reflections on mission by Church leaders are also much needed. There are over fifty contributors to the thirty-two chapters of the book, and every one, in whatever approach, interest, focus, knowledge, expertise in the field, and writing, opens the door for the Church, theological students, pastors, and laymen and women to ask the question why so many churches have not been living out integral mission and have therefore become less effective in addressing or combatting poverty, injustice, and conflict.
    keywords: book; church; poverty
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        item: #49 of 118
          id: crda-517
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: Editors’ Introduction: Gangs, M&E, Special Issues, and Editorial Changes
        date: 2022
       words: 2206
      flesch: 54
     summary: Author David Bueno, who grew up in El Salvador and has engaged in development work there for thirty years, realistically conveys the trials of development work interventions when gangs seem to control the communities and have penetrated even churches and Christian schools. Orphanages are closing around the world and many of these organizations are shifting toward integral community development.
    keywords: christian; crda; development; issue; work; world
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        item: #50 of 118
          id: crda-523
      author: Rowe, Barbara
       title: Reflections of a Practitioner on David Bueno’s “Gangs and Development: The Difficulties of Transformational Development in Gang-Controlled Communities in El Salvador”
        date: 2022
       words: 2751
      flesch: 54
     summary: At that time, there was no gang presence, but we began to hear whispers about local gangs, and the word “mara” (Spanish word for gang) started coming up in conversations. But there were also some who had been “evangelized” by local churches, only to fall away and return to gang life.
    keywords: bueno; community; development; gang; youth
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        item: #51 of 118
          id: crda-525
      author: Aguilar, Edgar
       title: How ASJ Integrates Work in Communities with Advocacy Efforts at the Macro-level to Pursue Transformational Development in Honduras : A Response to David Bueno
        date: 2022
       words: 2087
      flesch: 50
     summary: Finally, through the organization of local leadership, Comunidades Fuertes brings community leaders together and trains them in the use of tools that promote community development. On the one hand, Comunidades Fuertes, focuses on strengthening “the protective and resiliency factors in children and teenagers through working with families and community leaders” (Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa 2019).
    keywords: asj; communities; community; development; work
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        item: #52 of 118
          id: crda-527
      author: Ramírez de Rivera, Fabiola
       title: Response to David Bueno by a Church and Community Facilitator (Respuesta desde la mirada de una facilitadora de iglesia y comunidad al artículo de David Bueno)
        date: 2022
       words: 2812
      flesch: 48
     summary: En mi experiencia trabajando para una organización cristiana de desarrollo, cuando se inicia una relación de acompañamiento a la iglesia en su trabajo de transformación comunitaria, usualmente preguntamos si podemos visitar la zona solos, o acompañados por un líder de la iglesia la mirada de una facilitadora de iglesia y comunidad al artículo de David Bueno Fabiola Ramírez de Rivera Después de trabajar por más de nueve años en comunidades con contextos socioeconómicos diversos, puedo comprender que la dinámica de la participación e intervención social de la iglesia evangélica se ve afectada por el fenómeno de las pandillas.
    keywords: bueno; church; community; comunidad; gang; iglesia; las; los; members; para; pastor; por; que; una
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        item: #53 of 118
          id: crda-529
      author: Bueno, David
       title: Pandillas & desarrollo: Los retos para el desarrollo transformacional en comunidades controladas por las maras en El Salvador
        date: 2022
       words: 12535
      flesch: 47
     summary: La guerra territorial entre las pandillas de la calle 18 y la Mara Salvatrucha (MS) no se trata simplemente del orgullo del vecindario, sino del control del territorio estratégico que garantiza su seguridad y crea oportunidades. Dudley concluye que los problemas de las pandillas en El Salvador no se van a resolver con tácticas de aplicación de la ley; en cambio, deben abordarse a nivel social.
    keywords: 4(1; advocacy; agua; apoyo; bueno; cada; christian; como; comunidades; con; control; cuando; cómo; de desarrollo; de las; de pandillas; del; desarrollo; desarrollo transformacional; development; director; ejemplo; el desarrollo; el salvador; embargo; en el; en las; enredadas; escuela; este; estrategias; están; han; hay; iglesias; influencia; las; las comunidades; las iglesias; las pandillas; local; locales; los; marginales; martín; miembros; muchos; myers; más; nivel; organizaciones; pandillas; pandilleros; para; pentecostales; pero; por; por el; por las; por pandillas; programa; proyecto; puede; que; que el; que las; relief; salvador; san; ser; sido; sin; sobre; social; sociales; son; summer; sus; también; tiene; transformacional; una; y las
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        item: #54 of 118
          id: crda-531
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Bronkema, David
       title: Editors’ Introduction
        date: 2022
       words: 940
      flesch: 52
     summary: Other special issues in early stages of development include one on the foundational question of the relationship of faith and development, and another on mainstreaming gender in Christian NGOs. Pentecost-like dreams of full communication inspire all of us, but we will work through language issues as we are able, bringing as many people across the globe into conversation as possible.
    keywords: community; development; issue
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        item: #55 of 118
          id: crda-533
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Bronkema, David
       title: Accord Research Alliance Intensives and Sessions 2020 and 2021: A Synopsis
        date: 2022
       words: 2393
      flesch: 52
     summary: Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 4(1), Summer 2022 Editors, Accord Research Alliance Intensives… 40 11. Consider and understand six foundational layers: the M&E profession, the kingdom of God, the Christ-centered organization, M&E in Christ- centered organizations, Christ-centered M&E within the wider M&E landscape, and a resulting framework for Christ-centered M&E. Focus on discerning what God is already doing in the community, and acquire evidence for how the organization is being used to contribute to the growth of the kingdom, and be faithful to your calling even in the midst of a lack of such evidence, because at times that evidence is hard to detect. 9. Shoot for “Right-Fit Evidence,” so that the right amount and type of impact evaluation evidence is collected based on the organizational and situational context in which it is occurring.
    keywords: accord; evidence; listening; power; research
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        item: #56 of 118
          id: crda-535
      author: Warner, Jonathan
       title: Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition: Towards an Integral Ecology : Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1369
      flesch: 56
     summary: $47.96 This book is concerned with developing and deepening our understanding of human development. She elegantly demonstrates how these ethically rich documents can complement one of today’s main development paradigms, Amartya Sen’s capability approach to human development.
    keywords: book; cst; development; sen
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        item: #57 of 118
          id: crda-537
      author: Redfield, Rebecca
       title: Theologies and Practices of Inclusion: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1590
      flesch: 48
     summary: In a society where diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging are buzz words, Theologies and Practices of Inclusion serves as a reminder and call to action grounded in the reality that followers of Jesus have a biblical mandate to follow the example of our king and actively participate in his just and beautifully diverse kingdom coming, where all are welcomed and the last will be first. Theologies and Practices of Inclusion provides a thorough and thoughtful exploration for those seeking to learn about inclusion grounded in theology and embodied in development practice through partnership with local communities.
    keywords: development; inclusion; justice; work
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        item: #58 of 118
          id: crda-539
      author: Chettri, Saroj
       title: The Gift of Disillusionment: Enduring Hope for Leaders after Idealism Fades : Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1122
      flesch: 56
     summary: Church leaders ignored her pleas to become engaged in these matters of gospel-centered social justice, refusing to act on matters that, from her perspective, so clearly mattered to God (45). But at some point she realized she should look to God for hope rather than to a church, and she found that God was the only reliable source of enduring hope.
    keywords: disillusionment; god; hope
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        item: #59 of 118
          id: crda-541
      author: Miles, Carrie
       title: Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion: Book Review
        date: 2022
       words: 1612
      flesch: 41
     summary: On the other hand, her discussion of the goals of professional development suggests that professional INGOs are not efficient either. Unlike employees of professional INGOs, however, who are paid and likely live in the countries where they serve, amateurs “remain embedded in their careers and communities in the United States” (4).
    keywords: amateur; development; ingos; schnable
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        item: #60 of 118
          id: crda-545
      author: Verbi, Samuel
       title: A Year in God’s Time: Response Shift-Bias and Retrospective Pretest Methodologies in Measuring Spiritual Impact
        date: 2022
       words: 4268
      flesch: 50
     summary: Based upon longitudinal and retrospective survey data, as well as follow-up focus groups, from a spiritual community, this paper presents evidence of response shift bias occurring in social and spiritual impact metrics. Response shift bias occurs “when an individual’s internal frame of reference about the construct being measured changes between the pretest and the posttest” (Little et al. 2019, 2).
    keywords: bias; community; evaluation; god; impact; pretest; response; shift; year
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        item: #61 of 118
          id: crda-547
      author: Slimbach, Richard
       title: Asking Tough Questions About Transformational Development
        date: 2023
       words: 10188
      flesch: 47
     summary: Terms like holistic, integral, and transformational aim to resolve the stubborn division between soul-saving evangelism (the primary focus of evangelical mission agencies) and society-improving development (the focus of Christian social action and community development agencies). They suspect religious leaders involved in community development will favor their own beliefs, their own believers, and their own projects instead of working for universal benefit.
    keywords: advocacy; agencies; change; christian; church; churches; community; development; faith; global; god; human; life; military; new; ngos; organizations; people; questions; relief; slimbach; society; work; world
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        item: #62 of 118
          id: crda-549
      author: Toop, Katie
       title: More Than Partners : Christ-Centered Organizations and the Local Church
        date: 2023
       words: 3269
      flesch: 63
     summary: While acknowledging the value of these assets is important, the partnerships with local churches can easily fall into purely transactional relationships. One does not have to be a person of faith to see the value local churches can bring to disaster response and community development work.
    keywords: christ; church; concern; partnership; world
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        item: #63 of 118
          id: crda-551
      author: Jatau, Emmanuel; Mutonono, Dwight S.M.; Soerens, Thomas S.; Spradlin, Becca; Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: OneAccord 2022: A Synopsis
        date: 2023
       words: 2474
      flesch: 53
     summary: In the third plenary session, Jayakumar Christian promoted the construction of a theology of transformation, requiring us to search the mind of God. The first two are well-known in Christian Development circles, and Caliguire is director of spiritual formation at Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago area.
    keywords: christian; development; god; power; research; story; world
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        item: #64 of 118
          id: crda-553
      author: Mutonono, Dwight S.M.
       title: Book Review of The God that the Poor Seek: Conversion, Context, and the World of the Vulnerable by Rupen Das
        date: 2023
       words: 1097
      flesch: 52
     summary: While the powerful effects of conversion should not be discounted, especially in circumstances in which people need God to break in and do something about their situation, I wonder about what happens if the economic situation changes for the better, and people experience upward social mobility? The first section of the book (chapters 1-4) provides a fascinating background to understanding Christian conversion through church history.
    keywords: book; das
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        item: #65 of 118
          id: crda-555
      author: Leffel, Gregory
       title: Book Review of Participating in Abundant Life: Holistic Salvation for a Secular Age By Mark R. Teasdale
        date: 2023
       words: 1335
      flesch: 48
     summary: He worries that clergy, church members, Christian activists, development workers, and even his seminary students are entirely tongue-tied when trying to explain the content of their salvation and their motivation for social mission in public life. His remarkable innovation is to bring this pursuit down to earth by measuring it; that is, by defining specific quantifiable criteria Christians may use to measure our progress toward bringing forth abundance in public life.
    keywords: development; life; public; teasdale
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        item: #66 of 118
          id: crda-557
      author: Parsons, Katerina
       title: Book Review of Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Missiological History of Mennonite Central Committee by Alain Epp Weaver
        date: 2023
       words: 1096
      flesch: 44
     summary: It is something MCC workers have been saying for decades. I spent the next seven years with MCC and MCC partners, first in Honduras and then in Washington, D.C., wondering sometimes whether I was “serving” or merely “working.”
    keywords: epp; mcc; service
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        item: #67 of 118
          id: crda-561
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Bronkema, David
       title: Editors' Introduction
        date: 2023
       words: 870
      flesch: 53
     summary: Slimbach opens this issue by asking three sets of tough questions about the theory and practices of transformational development, inviting dialogue at every step. And the third set of questions asks which groups Christian NGOs do and/or should work with in partnership.
    keywords: christian; development; questions
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        item: #68 of 118
          id: crda-569
      author: Epp Weaver, Alain; Smith Cain, Emma
       title: “Outside Agencies Do Not Bring Development”: Mennonite Central Committee and the Decades-Long Challenge of Decolonizing Aid
        date: 2023
       words: 9305
      flesch: 40
     summary: While many “Pax men” and other MCC workers in the war’s immediate aftermath worked on a variety of reconstruction and refugee response projects in post- war Europe, the 1950s were a time of rapid expansion for MCC globally, with the organization opening up MCC programs across Latin America, Africa, and Asia in the 1950s. Structurally, the MCC system for the past decade has consisted of eleven MCC entities in Canada and the United States: four regional MCC entities in the US, bound in a covenantal relationship with MCC US; five provincial MCC entities in Canada connected through an agreement with MCC Canada; and MCC Canada and MCC US jointly owning and administering MCC’s program in 45 countries outside Canada and the US.
    keywords: agencies; aid; canada; christian; committee; development; global; humanitarian; international; mcc; mennonite; organizations; program; relief; service; work
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        item: #69 of 118
          id: crda-573
      author: Mahdi, Bikita; Ncube, Thobekile
       title: Tearfund’s Decolonisation Journey– from Jubilee to the Present
        date: 2023
       words: 8576
      flesch: 38
     summary: Its original use related to the physical and political process whereby colonies gained 1 Bikita Mahdi, business analyst, Strategy & Impact team, Tearfund UK; Thobekile Ncube, organisation development manager, Tearfund Zimbabwe; Andrew Philip, communications for development team lead, Tearfund UK; Anna Laszlo, Tearfund Chair of the Board; Jude Collins, editorial and audience inclusion lead in Tearfund UK’s communications for development team; Liz Muir, head of diversity and inclusion, Tearfund UK; Marc Romyer Antoine, Tearfund Country Director Haiti until December 2022; Miles Giljam, senior associate global campaigns team, Tearfund UK; Oenone Chadburn, Humanitarian & Resilience team lead, Tearfund UK; Rei Lemuel Crizaldo, theological education learning coordinator, Tearfund South East Asia. A Tearfund D&I committee, established in 2021 for an initial two years, has also raised the organisational profile of D&I work.
    keywords: board; d&i; decolonisation; development; international; journey; jubilee; organisation; people; power; relationships; team; tearfund; work
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        item: #70 of 118
          id: crda-575
      author: Petzey Chiviliu, Carmen Lourdes; Lesniewski, Jacob; Sosof, Josefa Damian; Tacaxoy, Mayra Magdalena; Wyngaarden, Sara
       title: Along the Road of Decolonization: Shared Priorities in Development Justice
        date: 2023
       words: 11096
      flesch: 31
     summary: Through feedback from ANADESA staff, project participants, and “Work Team” participants, MCC Guatemala staff realized that this shift could be paralleled in the “Work Team” programming. From the perspective of MCC Guatemala staff, this invocation of dependency disregards the importance of long-term commitments to decolonization processes as well as institutional growth and strengthening.
    keywords: anadesa; article; colonial; communities; decolonization; development; guatemala; identity; localization; mcc; organization; priorities; project; relief; staff; tz’utujil; women; work
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        item: #71 of 118
          id: crda-577
      author: Buys, Clark ; Andrade V., Maria A.
       title: Abundant Community Theology: A Case Study in Decolonial Theological Research
        date: 2023
       words: 8924
      flesch: 43
     summary: One of the concrete ways we do this is through conducting theological research, aiming to deepen and enrich our understanding on these topics as well as to contribute to the public theological discourse on them among policymakers, civil society movements, programmes, churches, and supporters. The process of undertaking theological research within Tearfund has taken different forms throughout the organisation’s history, but for the most part it has been permeated by a Global North perspective, expressed through the identity of the researcher(s), the language of the research, the methodologies used, the format of the outputs, and the use of the findings as true and valid to every context in which Tearfund works.
    keywords: community; decolonial; global; latin; paper; power; process; regional; research; south; tearfund; theology; voices; world
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        item: #72 of 118
          id: crda-579
      author: Kurlberg, Nina; Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: Decolonising Practice: Pathways, Insights, and Experiences from the Field of Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy
        date: 2023
       words: 4710
      flesch: 40
     summary: The development sector’s colonial roots have frequently been invoked in these conversations, said to be behind the supremacy of Western knowledge and power that persists in development practice today, and one of the reasons why some have referred to development as a neo-colonial endeavour (see, for example, Escobar 1995; Kothari 2006). It poses questions not so much about the political will, operational implementation and technical capabilities of humanitarians as about the perpetuation of colonial power relations in seemingly benevolent activities.
    keywords: advocacy; christian; decolonisation; decolonising; development; global; issue; organisations; power; practice; sector
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        item: #73 of 118
          id: crda-581
      author: Agyeman , Ann-Marie Msichili; Ranawana, Anupama
       title: From Development to Repair: Dismantling Racism and Its Role in Shaping Poverty Today
        date: 2023
       words: 6702
      flesch: 43
     summary: The Political and Multidimensional Nature of Poverty If reparations are part of a journey towards a world without poverty, then understanding the ways in which poverty exists and operates is important. The Material Dimension of Poverty When discussing material poverty, we understand it as the consequences and physical impacts of the oppression and exploitation of people relegated to the lower end of socially constructed hierarchies.
    keywords: agyeman; aid; christian; climate; colonial; development; people; poverty; power; race; racism; ranawana; repair; reparations; research; role
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        item: #74 of 118
          id: crda-583
      author: Shah, Rebecca Supriya
       title: Decolonizing Data and Recovering the Person in Christian Relief and Development Organizations
        date: 2023
       words: 12893
      flesch: 37
     summary: These power issues that affect development data collection need to enlist faithful Christians to take deliberate action to decolonize data gathering. This project, which was conducted under the auspices of the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, illustrates how it might be possible to change the terms of reference and possibly decolonize development data collection among the poor even during an exigent circumstance and urgent crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic (CREID 2021).
    keywords: christian; christian development; collection; communities; data; data collection; development; development data; development organizations; global; human; individuals; institutions; methods; organizations; person; power; relief; research; south; women; world
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        item: #75 of 118
          id: crda-585
      author: Jaiyebo-Okoro, Toluwanimi 
       title: Critical Enabling Factors for Decolonisation in Christian Development Organisations
        date: 2023
       words: 7052
      flesch: 41
     summary: At present, there is a serious diversity deficit in international development organisations headquartered in the Global North. My professional career has been spent working in international development; four years in the Global South and four years in the Global North, which is where I am currently based.
    keywords: christian; decolonisation; development; factors; global; international; justice; knowledge; lament; north; organisations; power; practice; south; white
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        item: #76 of 118
          id: crda-587
      author: Tizon, Al
       title: Mammon and Empire: Confronting the Root of All Evil
        date: 2023
       words: 3918
      flesch: 60
     summary: Deconstructing, decolonizing efforts articulated by the likes of Kwok Pui Lan (2021), Miguel De La Torre (2021), and Randy Woodley (2022) may not be wrecking balls, but they do plant seeds of the kind of revolution that church mission needs. Faithfulness to the gospel requires wealthy churches, which send missionaries and development workers to poorer regions of the world, to confront Mammon—in themselves and in the world—and to do mission according to the upside-down economics of the kingdom of God.
    keywords: church; community; development; empire; jesus; mammon; mission; poverty; wealth
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          id: crda-591
      author: Kuperus, Tracy
       title: Decolonizing Global Development Theory and Practice through “Centering” the Work of Robtel Neajai Pailey
        date: 2023
       words: 2813
      flesch: 54
     summary: In her article, “De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development,” she states, “In its crudest form, development has traditionally been about dissecting the political, socio-economic and cultural processes of Black, Brown, and other subjects of colour in the so- called Global South and finding them regressive, particularly in comparison to the so-called progressive Global North” (2020a, 729). One way development practitioners can subvert the White racial frame is by recruiting “radical rabble rousers who challenge and dismantle the status quo” (2020a, 742).
    keywords: 2020a; development; field; gaze; pailey; white; work
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        item: #78 of 118
          id: crda-593
      author: Cribbin, Jo
       title: Book Review of Holy Anarchy: Dismantling Domination, Embodying Community, Loving Strangeness by Graham Adams
        date: 2023
       words: 1236
      flesch: 48
     summary: Graham Adams’ Holy Anarchy: Adams walks the reader toward a vision of holy anarchy, exploring some of the obstructions that rise up to block its way, including empires of domination, unjust systems and structures, consumerism, and exploitative dominion over the earth.
    keywords: anarchy; holy
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        item: #79 of 118
          id: crda-595
      author: Rokhum, Kuki
       title: Book Review of A Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race and Cross by A.M. Ranawana
        date: 2023
       words: 2137
      flesch: 56
     summary: 1 Ranawana uses the terms “Global North” and “Global South,” but also the “Third World.” Yet ecological movements are still based in the Global North, where the power still resides.
    keywords: book; movements; ranawana; south
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        item: #80 of 118
          id: crda-597
      author: Moody, Cynthia
       title: Book Review of Christ Among the Classes: The Rich, the Poor and the Mission of the Church by Al Tizon
        date: 2023
       words: 1002
      flesch: 57
     summary: In other words, poor people cannot simply pull themselves out of poverty when its roots are structural in nature. Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(1), Summer 2023 Moody, Book Review 106 Book Review Christ Among the Classes: The Rich, the Poor and the Mission of the Church by Al Tizon Reviewed by Cynthia Moody New York.
    keywords: jesus; solidarity; tizon
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        item: #81 of 118
          id: crda-603
      author: Dejean, Catriona; Flowers, Charlotte; Hanna, Kyle; Manyumwa, Harrison; Middleton, Rebecca; Murangira, Emmanuel; Paton, Rachel; Sikes, Bethany
       title: Compelling, Consistent, and Credible: Tearfund’s experience of measuring the impact of the church on holistic wellbeing through Church and Community Transformation (CCT) in low and middle income contexts
        date: 2024
       words: 8498
      flesch: 25
     summary: The study compares participants of the CCT process with non- participants within the same communities, as well as those in CCT communities with those in communities which had not started CCT; randomly excluding participants from participating within communities would have been extremely difficult and counter to the approach taken by CCT. Once communities were sampled, church leaders were requested to mobilise around thirty respondents in CCT communities and one hundred in non-CCT communities, representing a mix of ages, genders, members of the sampled church, others who were not members, and in CCT communities, a mix of participants and non-participants.
    keywords: cct; church; churches; communities; community; development; impact; life; process; research; study; tearfund; value; wellbeing
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        item: #82 of 118
          id: crda-605
      author: Sabin, Scott; Meyer, Josh; Icoyavuze, Emile; Murorunkwere, Honorine; Ntibandye, Méthode; White, Jared; Martinez, Milmer; Chin, Corey; Thompson, Paul; Morikawa, Robert
       title: Multiplying Impact for Smallholder Farmers
        date: 2024
       words: 5451
      flesch: 30
     summary: Promotion of savings groups has become a well-recognized strategy for addressing poverty. Promotion of savings groups has become a significant component of poverty alleviation strategies in the past 30 years (VSLA 2023).
    keywords: agriculture; change; control; development; et al; farmers; group; impact; poverty; sabin; savings; smallholder; study; training; treatment
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        item: #83 of 118
          id: crda-609
      author: Paltzer, Jason; Jonker, Jason; Reinemann, Anna; Benfer, Jessica
       title: A Pilot Study of a Combined Faith-Based Recovery and Financial Literacy Program
        date: 2024
       words: 6143
      flesch: 46
     summary: Still another study could consider increasing retention rates in recovery programs to increase the likelihood of individuals navigating this faith journey through recovery. Individuals staying at recovery homes frequently changed addresses and communication methods (changed in phone numbers and internet access for email), which led to incomplete surveys during the follow-up period.
    keywords: christian; faith; finances; god; group; health; individuals; participants; program; recovery; study; substance; use
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        item: #84 of 118
          id: crda-613
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Bronkema, David
       title: Editor’s Introduction, with a Tribute to Chad Hayward
        date: 2024
       words: 783
      flesch: 46
     summary: Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(2), Winter 2024 Hoksbergen and Bronkema, Editors’ Introduction and a Tribute to Chad Hayward i Editor’s Introduction, with a Tribute to Chad Hayward Roland Hoksbergen and David Bronkema – CRDA Co-Editors The current issue of the CRDA journal comes out at a time when we are still mourning the passing of Chad Hayward just a few short months ago on January 27, 2024. In the next year we expect to publish special issues on both peacebuilding and gender.
    keywords: crda; development; issue
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          id: crda-615
      author: LeQuire, Stan 
       title: Thirty Years Later: The Growth of the Creation Care Movement 
        date: 2024
       words: 2568
      flesch: 61
     summary: David Bookless, the theology director of A Rocha International, travels globally with the message of the Bible’s mandate for creation care. Lowe also notes a “significant switch” over the past few years from having to persuade audiences of the basics of creation care to the need to equip their audience for specific action.
    keywords: care; creation; growth; movement; years
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        item: #86 of 118
          id: crda-619
      author: Madriz Bolaños, Maria Fernanda (Mafer)
       title: Obedience to God Requires Decolonization: Reflections of a Practitioner 
        date: 2024
       words: 1190
      flesch: 54
     summary: Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(2), Winter 2024 Madriz Bolaños, Obedience to God Requires Decolonization 125 Obedience to God Requires Decolonization: Reflections of a Practitioner Maria Fernanda (Mafer) Madriz Bolaños Before commenting on CRDA’s special issue on decolonization, I want briefly to explain the lenses through which I am reading. Finally, these organizations were humble, but they were also bold enough to Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(2), Winter 2024 Madriz Bolaños, Obedience to God Requires Decolonization 126 acknowledge where they needed to decolonize their work and take action.
    keywords: god; work
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        item: #87 of 118
          id: crda-621
      author: Bray, Charlotte
       title: Decolonization in the World of Christian NGOs : A Theological Response
        date: 2024
       words: 2421
      flesch: 43
     summary: I believe that Christian organizations have an important role to play in the decolonization of both the international development sector and wider society. In their article, Clark Buys and Maria A. Andrade V. assert that, for Christian organizations such as Tearfund, their Christian identity is, in their words, “foundational to the organisation’s why, how, and with whom” (2023, 36).
    keywords: christian; decolonization; development; sin; theological
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          id: crda-623
      author: Kurlberg, Nina
       title: Further Discussion on Decolonization 
        date: 2024
       words: 3196
      flesch: 51
     summary: The second one, and this is where I think the rubber hits the road, is for Christian organizations to avoid paternalistic framing of their effort because they are the only ones who know best and because they happen to have the resources and skills to engage in the kind of data collection and analysis required. But to deWesternize and decolonize research, Christian organizations should not start from a default posture of hostility or skepticism towards traditional culture, and particularly cultural practices.
    keywords: decolonization; global; kurlberg; organizations; people; power; theology
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          id: crda-625
      author: Jayakaran, Ravi; Slimbach, Richard
       title: Tough Questions on Faith and Development: A Reflection
        date: 2024
       words: 1877
      flesch: 57
     summary: When it comes to the worldview of communities, when there is a gap, they will use anything to address it. We see this happening in many communities.
    keywords: community; development; slimbach; supernatural
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        item: #90 of 118
          id: crda-627
      author: Toop, Katie; Slimbach, Richard
       title: Tough Questions on Faith and Field Partnerships : A Commentary
        date: 2024
       words: 2699
      flesch: 64
     summary: How should Christian NGOs from the Global North relate to local churches in the Global South? The power imbalance that Musa is depicting between INGOs and the local church or between the national or denominational agendas in local churches is real and tends to lead to a fragmentation of vision, and often of the team itself, that is serving in the church.
    keywords: christian; church; global; partnerships; questions
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        item: #91 of 118
          id: crda-629
      author: Powell, Philip; Slimbach, Richard
       title: Tough Questions on Faith and Political Economy : A Commentary
        date: 2024
       words: 2601
      flesch: 54
     summary: Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(2), Winter 2024 Powell/Slimbach, Tough Questions on Faith and Political Economy: A Reflection 138 Tough Questions on Faith and Political Economy: A Commentary Philip Powell and Richard Slimbach And thank you, Richard, for writing this challenging article, asking tough questions about transformation and development.
    keywords: christian; development; faith; powell; questions; slimbach; world
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        item: #92 of 118
          id: crda-631
      author: Bronkema, David
       title: Further Discussion on Tough Questions About Transformational Development 
        date: 2024
       words: 2010
      flesch: 68
     summary: The webinar was moderated by David Bronkema, co-editor of the journal, and started with remarks by three main discussants: Ravi Jayakaran (president of Medical Ambassadors International) who tackled Slimbach’s questions around faith and development; Philip Powell (co-director of the Justice Conference, UK, and also Theology and Network Engagement Manager with Tearfund, UK) who responded to questions involving faith and political economy; and Katie Toop (senior director of transformational development with World Concern), who addressed the questions of faith and field partnerships. I appreciate and agree with that, especially because we are often afraid of questions.
    keywords: bronkema; development; questions; time
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        item: #93 of 118
          id: crda-633
      author: Daugaard, Andreas R.
       title: Blood Entanglements: Evangelicals and Gangs in El Salvador : by Stephen Offutt
        date: 2024
       words: 1813
      flesch: 51
     summary: Furthermore, most gang members believe in God and even consider themselves to be evangelicals: 95.3% of gang members consider their relationship to God as important and 54.9% of them identify as evangelicals (50, see Cruz et al. 2017). Gangs and evangelicals sometimes form unusual alliances to benefit the communities they are both a part of: Christians may seek out gangs for protection (121) and pastors may negotiate with gangs to prevent violence, settle disputes, or determine appropriate punishment for those who violate community rules (130), and churches and Christian organizations may provide aid for gang-members and their families (137).
    keywords: book; evangelicals; gangs; members; salvador
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        item: #94 of 118
          id: crda-635
      author: Luikham, Elijah; Chronic, David; Hoksbergen, Roland
       title: A Brief History of the Accord Network and Synopsis of OneAccord23 
        date: 2024
       words: 1427
      flesch: 38
     summary: He is also PhD candidate in Intercultural Studies at https://accordnetwork.org/oneaccord-2023 mailto:tsoerens@messiah.edu mailto:odoi_odotei@wvi.org https://www.cednetwork.org/ mailto:gwilkinson@hopeinternational.org mailto:dbronkem@eastern.edu Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 5(2), Winter 2024 Luikham, Chronic, and Hoksbergen, A Brief History of the Accord Network and Synopsis of OneAccord23 154 Asbury Theological Seminary where he is focusing on Global Development. The Accord Network board and the journal’s newly- constituted editorial board readily agreed that CRDA would become the official journal of the Accord Network, dedicated to providing “a forum in which practices, ideas, research, theories, ethics, and controversies of relief, development, and advocacy are presented, discussed, and debated by those who share a commitment to live in service to Jesus Christ” (CRDA website – About).
    keywords: accord; development; god; network
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        item: #95 of 118
          id: crda-641
      author: Bronkema, David
       title: Spiritual Metrics as a Bulwark Against Secularization
        date: 2024
       words: 1968
      flesch: 35
     summary: In other words, rather than slicing off the spiritual and putting it into its own category, spiritual metrics help graft spiritual dimensions back into situations where they are absent and nurture and deepen those spiritual dimensions where they are already present. This article explores how and why being intentional about including spiritual metrics into our planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation processes holds great promise to enable that integration to be done well, and to guard against the “secularization” of those efforts.
    keywords: metrics; spiritual; things
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        item: #96 of 118
          id: crda-643
      author: Addink de Graaf, Roxanne
       title: Strong Together: Building Partnerships Across Cultures in an Age of Distrust by Andrea Nelson Trice: Book Review
        date: 2024
       words: 1921
      flesch: 43
     summary: With sound research and engaging examples, Andrea Nelson Trice reminds us of the many roadblocks to strong cross-cultural partnerships, while also affirming the need for the important work of bridging divides and merging our diverse strengths and perspectives. Beyond Nelson Trice’s expertise in cultural and organizational dynamics, the insights presented in Strong Together emerge from interviews with ninety Majority World and US American leaders working in cross-cultural social enterprises and international development organizations.
    keywords: business; nelson; partnerships; trice; world
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        item: #97 of 118
          id: crda-645
      author: Hoksbergen, Roland; Bronkema, David; Kurlberg, Nina
       title: Editors' Introduction
        date: 2024
       words: 754
      flesch: 44
     summary: As you are led to address CRDA issues in your own arena, keep this journal in mind as a venue to share your research and reflections with like-minded people in this supportive community. Participant comments refer back especially to the contribution Jayakumar Christian made at the Accord meetings in October of 2022 when he expressed concern that measuring spiritual factors threatened a “slicing off” of spiritual issues from all the others relevant to thriving communities.
    keywords: crda; journal
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        item: #98 of 118
          id: crda-647
      author: Bronkema, David; Christian, Jayakumar; Waters, James; Toop, Katie; Kumar, Subodh; Cortez, Victor
       title: “Spiritual Metrics as a Bulwark Against Secularization”: Responses and Dialogue
        date: 2024
       words: 6889
      flesch: 57
     summary: In essence, the main question Jayakumar poses for us on a practical level is this, How does one ensure that measuring spiritual impact and engaging in spiritual metrics promote our understanding, and that of the people we work with, of seeing God and God’s design, purpose, and calling in everything, and that we think, talk, plan, and act accordingly? The purpose of the symposium, and of Bronkema’s thought piece that underpinned it (and published as part of this issue of the journal), was to tackle the critique advanced by Jayakumar Christian in the ARA pre-conference intensive of October 2022 on the danger of engaging in spiritual metrics in a way that separated out the spiritual from everything else.
    keywords: bronkema; christian; david; development; god; jayakumar; metrics; spiritual
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        item: #99 of 118
          id: crda-653
      author: Reynolds, Amy; Kretzer Chun, Joanna; Bronkema, David
       title: Gender Mainstreaming and Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy Organizations: Introduction
        date: 2025
       words: 3661
      flesch: 40
     summary: Whether or not this is a significant driving force behind the lack of engagement by evangelical Christian relief, development, and advocacy organizations with gender mainstreaming issues, it is also the case that there is a dearth of adequate research around the intersection of gender, faith, and development. We see research and conversations around gender mainstreaming as one such effort.
    keywords: christian; development; gender; issue; mainstreaming; organizations; relief; women
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        item: #100 of 118
          id: crda-655
      author: Wheaton Network Initiative on Gender, Development and Christianity
       title: Principles of Gender Equality for Development Organizations
        date: 2025
       words: 1654
      flesch: 40
     summary: Historical realities have created structural and systemic barriers for women and other underrepresented groups to advance in organizations today. This shalom needs women and men partnering at all levels within our organizations and the communities we serve.
    keywords: development; equality; gender; women
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        item: #101 of 118
          id: crda-657
      author: none
       title: Blank Page in Recognition Of Pulled Article
        date: 2025
       words: 68
      flesch: 2
     summary: Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 6(2), Winter 2025 Blank Page in Recognition of Pulled Article 58 Blank Page in Recognition Of Pulled Article This blank page is in recognition of the article that was to be featured in this special issue, a case study on gender mainstreaming in an evangelical organization, that had to be pulled because of the current political targeting of diversity, inclusion, and equity efforts.
    keywords: page
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        item: #102 of 118
          id: crda-659
      author: Jones, Emily Nielsen; Odhiambo, Jackline A.
       title: Destigmatizing Eve: Tackling the Underlying Culture of Patriarchal Honor and Shame Undermining the Work of Christian Relief and Development
        date: 2025
       words: 11882
      flesch: 42
     summary: This builds on the legacies of the continual work of (re)interpretation of Scripture which many women (and men) over the centuries have engaged in as a source of liberation and equality for women in the context of misogyny. Destigmatizing Eve requires that we listen to unvarnished stories of stigmatized women who are brave enough to share the horrors they have endured at the risk of being restigmatized.
    keywords: christian; church; crd; development; eve; gender; god; honor; jones; kenya; life; odhiambo; patriarchal; relief; shame; stigma; stigmatization; widows; women; work; world
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        item: #103 of 118
          id: crda-661
      author: Smith, Brian Albert
       title: Reading the Bible for Gender in Development
        date: 2025
       words: 9276
      flesch: 55
     summary: 15 The concept of a “biblical teaching” is more complicated than often realized; what the Bible teaches is typically a manifestation of a faith community’s interpretation of biblical texts. Recent developments in the field of biblical studies provide an opportunity for engaging the Bible through the lens of gender equality work and vice versa.
    keywords: bible; christian; development; equality; gender; new; organizations; readers; reading; relief; scripture; studies; text; women; work; world
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        item: #104 of 118
          id: crda-663
      author: Lee, Joy
       title: Going Beyond a Simple Evangelical Salvation Narrative in Anti-Sex Trafficking: The Contributions of Asian and Asian American Christian Feminist Scholars
        date: 2025
       words: 8351
      flesch: 37
     summary: Second, and related to the problem of agency, Asian women can become the racialized and sexualized objects of rescue in a local patriarchal cultural context reinforced by the Western imperial gaze (Katoppo 2001), especially when it comes to marketing the cause of anti-sex trafficking efforts. I look at how Asian/Asian American Christian feminist scholars can provide contextual frameworks that center sexually exploited Asian women and their complex experiences.
    keywords: american; asia; christian; development; efforts; feminist; god; human; narrative; rescue; salvation; sesn; sex; theology; trafficking; women; work
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        item: #105 of 118
          id: crda-665
      author: Deepan, Prabu; Blake, Ruby
       title: Transforming Masculinities: A Personal Narrative of a Continuing Journey
        date: 2025
       words: 6030
      flesch: 62
     summary: Uwezo: I had the chance to spend two weeks with Prabu facilitating Transforming Masculinities training in villages. And I think this motivated him to think about how to help other men who were treating women the way his father was treating his mother.
    keywords: gender; journey; masculinities; people; prabu; violence; women
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        item: #106 of 118
          id: crda-667
      author: Reynolds, Amy
       title: Gendered Leadership in Accord Organizations
        date: 2025
       words: 8137
      flesch: 49
     summary: After explaining the methods used to gather and analyze information on the gender breakdown of leadership within Accord organizations, I present the data on the different levels of leadership and discuss the implications. 3 I focus on Accord organizations in this study for several reasons.
    keywords: accord; board; christian; data; development; executive; female; gender; leadership; organizations; sector; teams; women
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        item: #107 of 118
          id: crda-669
      author: Romero-Medina, Amanda
       title: Eight Million Exiles: Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration: by Christopher M. Hays
        date: 2025
       words: 1949
      flesch: 36
     summary: Project materials were thus connected “always to Scriptural texts” (43) rather than to systematic theological categories. Nevertheless, the Faith and Displacement project exceeded expectations, enabling local churches to become involved in outreach to IDPs and helping the latter in a number of ways, including starting new microbusinesses and receiving psychosocial support, such as counselling for victims of sexual abuse and disenfranchisement.
    keywords: book; development; idps; intervention; project; research
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        item: #108 of 118
          id: crda-673
      author: Barton, John D.
       title: From “Peaceful” to “Peaceable”: A Proposed Conceptual Shift for Interreligious Peacemaking
        date: 2025
       words: 7714
      flesch: 51
     summary: For one thing, embedded in the statement is a reminder that religious 4 Volf (2017, 85, 189) makes this point especially with regard to the originating visions of the major religious traditions: “As I interpret them, world religions are cultural systems distinct from governments” and “all world religions were originally articulated, received, and practiced as just such ‘thick’ religions.” While religious peacemaking does not require peaceful religions per se, it does require the dual combination of peace-seeking adherents and peace- able-izing resources.
    keywords: barton; christian; god; islam; new; peace; peacemaking; press; religion; rule; traditions; violence; world; york
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        item: #109 of 118
          id: crda-675
      author: McKoy, Michael
       title: Jus Ante Bellum: Enemy Love and Just War Theory
        date: 2025
       words: 4986
      flesch: 57
     summary: 2 But the burdens of this assumption become evident when 1 Eric Patterson (2012, ix) expressed dismay that, in a month-long seminar on just war that he attended in 2004, there was no discussion of postwar just principles: “The fact that we could spend a month talking about the morality of going to war (jus ad bellum) and the morality of how war is fought (jus in bello) without discussing the morality of conflict settlement and postconflict (just post bellum) should be startling to the outside observer.” But when just- war states refuse to love the enemy they are attacking, they will likely fail to uphold the just principles they are supposedly promoting.
    keywords: bellum; countries; enemy; jus; libya; love; qaddafi; relationship; state; war
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        item: #110 of 118
          id: crda-677
      author: Azar, Sally
       title: Christian Peacemaking in the Context of the Recent Gaza War: Challenges and Theological Reflections
        date: 2025
       words: 6088
      flesch: 37
     summary: The Israeli bombing of the Saint Porphyrios Church in Gaza, one of the five oldest churches worldwide, put the situation of Palestinian Christians in the spotlight. This article seeks to explore how Palestinian Christians are responding to the ongoing situation, from theological, ecclesiastical and national perspectives.
    keywords: christian; conflict; gaza; israel; justice; occupation; palestine; palestinian; peace; theological; violence
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        item: #111 of 118
          id: crda-679
      author: Riddle, Karie Cross
       title: Christian Responses to Violence and Conflict: Introduction to CRDA’s Special Issue
        date: 2025
       words: 6448
      flesch: 53
     summary: While many peace studies scholars began using terms like structural violence and positive peace through the 1970s and beyond, that did not necessarily extend into the halls of power. Many peace studies and religious studies scholars published accounts of religious actors, including Muslims, working for the common good, but at the same time, political scientist Samuel Huntington’s (1996) controversial argument proposing the “clash of civilizations” seemed to be borne out by the events of 9/11.
    keywords: christian; conflict; development; global; international; new; peace; peacebuilding; press; studies; university; violence; war; work; world
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        item: #112 of 118
          id: crda-681
      author: Gibson, Gregory
       title: A Conversation with Gregory Gibson, Co-Founder and Global Team Leader for SALT: Interview conducted and edited by Karie Riddle
        date: 2025
       words: 4178
      flesch: 69
     summary: From my understanding it’s common across mission organizations that the reason people leave the vocation of pastor or leave the mission field is not necessarily because they stop believing in the work; a high percentage leave because they are not healthy. In the conversation that follows, we learn about SALT’s work before and after the invasion, the principles and practices that have helped them to thrive even in the midst of war, and their advice for other organizations trying to serve communities that face violent disruption.
    keywords: church; organization; pastors; salt; ukraine; work
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        item: #113 of 118
          id: crda-683
      author: Anonymous
       title: A Conversation with a Christian Woman from Manipur, India: Interview conducted and edited by Karie Riddle
        date: 2025
       words: 3367
      flesch: 72
     summary: To me even back then [in the 1990s] I would say, whatever they have done it is done, but me or my family or other people, what we need to do is offer forgiveness, because when God asks us to forgive seventy times seven, even if you are in anger, you shouldn’t let the anger continue beyond sunset. Even myself, how I got healed, it was just learning and exposing myself to different people who are also going through similar conflicts.
    keywords: christian; conflict; manipur; people; violence
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          id: crda-685
      author: Figge, Anne
       title: Using Church-Based Savings Groups for Trauma Healing and Peacebuilding: A View from the Field in South Sudan
        date: 2025
       words: 5574
      flesch: 49
     summary: Without the capacity to read and write, savings group members find it difficult to maintain records transparently, and to build the trust needed for successful functioning of a savings group. The trauma healing training implemented within savings groups consisted of an informal peer-to-peer counselling methodology in which members learn about the impact of trauma (giving them a language to talk about it), recognize and reflect on the consequences of trauma in their own lives, and share this with other group members.
    keywords: church; community; conflict; groups; peace; peacebuilding; people; savings; south; sudan; trauma
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          id: crda-687
      author: Castañeda, Carlos; Hunter-Bowman, Janna L.
       title: Immigrant-led Social Movements Confront Global Violence and Build Peace: Dialogue as Action Research Method and Collaborative Praxis for Transformation
        date: 2025
       words: 8791
      flesch: 59
     summary: For example, we later identified and agreed upon final products, namely an academic book for use in places of formation, like divinity schools and seminaries, and accessible resources for church communities. Five years prior, in 2016, I met Dara Marquez at a meeting at the seminary in which a room full of church people, mostly White Mennonite, was organizing to protect and stand with immigrants through a new sanctuary movement, as churches and other groups were doing elsewhere in the country.
    keywords: carlos; christian; church; community; cosecha; dialogue; immigrant; janna; movements; peace; peacebuilding; people; research; social; violence
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          id: crda-689
      author: Ozonze, Joachim
       title: Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations: by Cecelia Lynch
        date: 2025
       words: 1217
      flesch: 29
     summary: Wrestling with these questions challenges Christian organizations to not only recognize how Christian ethical principles can be co- opted in different ways, but also to adopt a posture of humility. This involves a deeply reflexive acknowledgement of ethical precarity—one that is courageous enough to relinquish the high moral ground and undermines justifications for epistemic and bodily precarity and violence (19).
    keywords: christian; lynch; wrestling
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        item: #117 of 118
          id: crda-691
      author: Tang, Flora x.
       title: Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding: by Atalia Omer
        date: 2025
       words: 1374
      flesch: 17
     summary: Practitioners of religious peacebuilding can work against this tendency by continuing to center more prophetic voices within religious traditions that offer hermeneutically open, decolonial, feminist, and empowering re-interpretations of religious traditions. Omer highlights how religion and religious traditions have been “harnessed” by peacebuilding non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and programs to become a “technocratic tool” to promote liberal governance and societal harmony.
    keywords: book; peacebuilding; religion
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        item: #118 of 118
          id: crda-693
      author: Cannon, Mae Elise
       title: The 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War: What Jewish Trauma and Genocide in Gaza Taught Me about Collective Liberation
        date: 2025
       words: 14011
      flesch: 45
     summary: Now, after the horrors of October 7 and Israel’s war to destroy Hamas, with its ghastly effects on the civilian population of Gaza, where to begin in the middle of stories of such trauma and horror? However, on January 26, 2024, the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that “at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible’, including ‘the right of the 2 I am choosing to use the term “conflict” not to minimize the atrocities of current realities in Gaza, but to acknowledge that there have been multiple phases of historical engagement and hostilities and war between multiple parties residing on the current geographic land of the modern nation-state of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), including but not limited to: Indigenous Jewish and Arab populations; members of the Palestinian resistance movements; Palestinians who later became citizens of the state of Israel; Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza; Jewish citizens of Israel living on the Israeli side of the green line; Israeli setters; Palestinian refugees from 1948, 1967, and other periods; diaspora communities; and others.
    keywords: 2023; advocacy; cannon; christian; church; conflict; day; development; gaza; god; hamas; israel; justice; liberation; middle; military; october; palestinian; peace; people; rights; violence; war; world
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