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Urban ministry training resources
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Techmission is working with CCDA to digitize content from it past conferences and have launched a growing site with dozens of free downloads. Two of my personal faves from last year: Rev. Jim Wallis, “God’s Politics” (Friday evening plenary, 6:30 pm) MP3: Download / Streaming / Podcast / RSS Feed Dr. Ray Bakke, “The Gospel [...]
Can you afford the ghetto tax?
Friday, July 28th, 2006From Barbara Ehrenreich’s response to the question, “Can you afford to be poor?” A new study from the Brookings Institute documents the “ghetto tax,” or higher cost of living in low-income urban neighborhoods. It comes at you from every direction, from food prices to auto insurance. A few examples from this study, by Matt Fellowes, [...]