S2 Ep1034: When Helping Hurts: Dr. Brian Fikkert

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dr. Brian Fikkert is a Professor of Economics and Community Development and the Founder and President of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College. He is coauthor of the best-selling book When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself as well as Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, and From Dependence to Dignity: How to Alleviate Poverty Through Church-Centered Microfinance. Dr. Fikkert earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, specializing in international economics and economic development.

In this conversation, Brian and I talk about his book When Helping Hurts, which is easily the top 5 most influential books I’ve ever read. We also talk the pros and cons of short term mission trips and how churches can best partner with poorer churches without doing unintentional harm.

Check out Brian’s organization www.chalmers.org

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0:00.0	Hello friends, registration is now open for next year's exiles and Babylon conference
0:05.0	and I cannot wait for this conference.
0:07.0	Here's a few topics that we're going to wrestle with.
0:08.4	The future of the church, disability in the church, multi-ethnic perspectives on American
0:12.6	Christianity and a conversational debate on the problem of evil and suffering.
0:17.5	We have Eugene Cho, Elise Fitzpatrick, Matt Chandler, Michelle Sanchez, Justin Gibbany,
0:22.2	Devon Stollamar, Hardrich Lisco's on and on, Joey Dodson's going to be there.
0:27.2	Greg Boyd and Clay Jones, they're going to be engaging in this conversational debate
0:31.3	on the problem of evil and suffering and of course, we have to have Ellie Bonilla and
0:35.4	street hymns back by popular demand and Tanika Waya and Evan Wicken, but we'll be leading
0:40.3	our multi-ethnic worship again.
0:42.9	We're also adding a pre-conference this year, so we're going to do an in-depth scholarly
0:48.3	conversation on the question of women and ministry featuring two scholars on each side
0:53.0	of the issue.
0:54.0	Doctors Gary Bershears and Sidney Park are on the complementary side and doctors Cynthia
0:58.8	Long Westfall and Philip Payne on the egalitarian side, so March 23rd to 25th, 2023 here in
1:06.1	Boise, Idaho.
1:07.4	We sold out last year and we'll probably sell this year again.
1:10.8	So if you want to come, if you want to come alive, then I would register sooner than
1:14.4	later and you can always attend virtually if you can't make it out to Boise in person.
1:17.9	So all the info is at TheologyInTheRod.com, that's TheologyInTheRod.com.
1:23.0	Hello, friends.
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