Suggested Reading
Learn more about the issues of poverty and development with these resources from Episcopal Relief & Development and well-known experts in the field.
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We recommend the following books to help raise awareness about the importance of development in addressing poverty and disease worldwide:
An American Awakening: From Ground Zero to Katrina the People We Are Free to Be by Courtney Cowart
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire by William T. Cavanaugh
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawked
Crazy Christians by The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death by Susan D. Moeller
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Fling Out the Banner: The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church by Ian T. Douglas
Food and Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread edited by Michael Schut
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Lifting Women’s Voices edited by Margaret Rose, Jenny Te Paa, Jeanne Person and Abagail Nelson
Micah’s Challenge: The Church’s Responsibility to the Global Poor by Marijke Hoek and Justin Thacker.
Money & Faith: The Search for Enough edited by Michael Schut
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Paul Farmer
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective edited by Michael Schut
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (and How to Reverse It) by Robert D. Lupton
Visions of Development: Faith-Based Initiatives by Wendy R. Tyndale
Walking with the Poor by Bryant Myers
Please note that Episcopal Relief & Development does not necessarily endorse or agree with all statements, perspectives and arguments offered by the authors. The readings are suggested to spark discussion about these critical issues.
