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The writer, Martin Bell, has a way with words that I envy. He is able to capture the essence of his subject and slap the reader in the face with it.
In his small book, THE WAY OF THE WOLF, Bell has a chapter called “Hunger and Hurricanes.” In that chapter is this paragraph:

To be [...]

I am still jet-lagged and trying to catch up from my vacation, but I thought this was an important piece for those of us fighting to end hunger. I haven’t read the book yet, but Lester Brown has been a leader in fighting hunger for the past thirty years.
Knowing the political background that impacts the [...]

This morning I just found out about (what appears to be) another good book supporting the case for ending hunger in our lifetime. I haven’t read the book yet, but the premise of cutting hunger in half through a renewed focus on agricultural development and social protection makes sense.

Halving Hunger Meeting the First Millennium Development Goal through [...]

Harvey Cox, one of the most provocative American theologians for over 40 years, has a new book, The Future of Faith. The book is basically an argument that Christianity is now moving from an “Age of Belief” into an “Age of Spirit,”
 
Cox thinks that we are coming into an era where spirituality is displacing [...]

Born in the central Italian town of Assissi in 1182, Francis Bernardone is the most beloved saint in the Western world. His simplicity, his love for nature, his deep identification with the poor, have all endeared him to millions of people from all spiritual paths.
Although he grew up in a wealthy merchant family, he devoted [...]

ENDING HUNGER NOW
A Challenge to Persons of Faith
George McGovern, Bob Dole & Donald E. Messer
114 pages
Augsburg Fortress Press, 2005
Ending Hunger Now, like The Third Freedom, which I reviewed in an earlier post ( “A must read”  2/23/08)  is a powerful book that is a must read for anyone who is seriously committed to helping [...]

The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time

George McGovern
Simon & Schuster, 173 pp.

The Third Freedom  (first copyright in 2001) is focused on banishing hunger from around the globe, and doing it in our lifetime. McGovern states that ending hunger in our lifetime is not only possible, but is in fact obligatory since our civilization now has all [...]