haiti

March 29, 2010

Haiti: Tent City Economics

A nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince is now home to 50,000 people, and an economy that includes a makeshift movie theater and a lot of beauty salons. In NPR.

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January 13, 2010

Missionaries killed in Haiti disaster are not martyrs.

Lest anyone think they are, the general definition of a martyr that I use – and probably most would agree with this – is: A believer in Christ killed prematurely as a result of human hostility in a situation of witness {and some here add, “as a result of their faith.”} The bit in brackets is important because the original word “martyr” was the word used for “witness.” We only came to associate “martyr” with “one killed for their faith” because so many in the Early Church were. So if a believer in Iraq is killed as a result of [...]

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January 13, 2010

Haiti vs. Aceh: an instructive illustration of “hiddenness.”

Today, there is an enormous amount of Twitter traffic representing the enormous amount happening on behalf of Haiti. This small, poor island country suffered a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake with thousands – perhaps tens of thousands – killed. I am all for work on behalf of Haiti. Yes, we should bless this little nation. Jesus loves Haiti just as much as He loves Aceh. In fact I could make an argument that my first short-term trip, with my family to Haiti when I was I think about 12, was probably very formative in my missionary thinking. For all that, however, I [...]

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