April 2012
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Wednesday: Give a little.
Last week I kind of skipped Give a Little. I think the unspoken message was you know what, I’m a teeny bit sick of giving. It’s hard to pretend that giving gets me jazzed every day of the week. I’m going through a phase right now in which I’ve gotten so big picture I can’t even tell what I care about anymore or which organizations are effective. And what does...
Practicing Vulnerability
Today I’m guest blogging on my friend Jessica’s blog about the poor. Check it.
“I have no concrete idea how Christianity will wrestle free of its current...”
– Andrew Sullivan in his Newsweek piece on Christianity today
Tiny Spark
My new favorite podcast is Tiny Spark — a Chronicle of Philanthropy podcast about the business of doing good. The difficult thing about being a funder is that you have to take the emotion out of giving - Yes, I understand that you give kittens to poor people and that it’s adorable, but who cares?
In a smaller but equally meaningful sense, we all give back to charities that make us...
