{"id":29350,"date":"2011-11-16T02:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/amy_sherman_reviews_robert_luptons_toxic_charity_how_churches_and_charities\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T02:01:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:01:33","slug":"amy_sherman_reviews_robert_luptons_toxic_charity_how_churches_and_charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29350","title":{"rendered":"Amy Sherman reviews Robert Lupton&#39;s Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[In this work]&#8230; the 40-year veteran urban minister &#8220;takes the gloves off&#8221; and argues that much of Americans&#8217; charitable giving &#8220;is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that the &#8220;compassion industry&#8221; is &#8220;almost universally accepted as a virtuous and constructive enterprise,&#8221; but its &#8220;outcomes are almost entirely unexamined.&#8221; Years of charitable giving at home and abroad, Lupton contends, have made barely a dent in reducing poverty and often encourage dependency. Toxic Charity offers some statistics, but more stories, as evidence that both our philosophy and practice of charity are frequently misguided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/november\/review-toxic-charity.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[In this work]&#8230; the 40-year veteran urban minister &#8220;takes the gloves off&#8221; and argues that much of Americans&#8217; charitable giving &#8220;is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help.&#8221; The reason is that the &#8220;compassion industry&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29350\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,92,135,419,154,177,88,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}