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This FEMA Official Says the Government Wants to Help Your Church Ministry
As Howard University welcomed students impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Marcus watched with fascination the chapels provided for these students on his campus. That experience—plus serving on alternative spring breaks and witnessing the power of multifaith services at an even younger age—launched him into a career connecting churches and government entities. Now, he’s an administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Humanitarian Disasters Are Worse than Ever. One Research Institute Is There to Help the Church Prepar...
As with all things that grow, it started as a seed: what if Wheaton College offered a graduate program that prepared future generations of humanitarian professionals to respond to the world’s greatest needs? Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege of watching this seed mature and grow into a shoot, then a sapling and now a tree.
Why Disasters?: Kent and Jamie on the Hot Seat for the HDI Origins Story
As disasters increase each year across the globe, research shows that the vulnerable suffer disproportionately from them. Fortunately, the church is uniquely suited by its design to bring much-needed assistance to the vulnerable. That’s why in 2011, disaster psychologist Jamie Aten founded the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College. Its mission: to help the church prepare and care for a disaster-filled world.
Evangelicals Picked the Wrong COVID Debate. Here’s the One We Should Be Having.
Twenty months in, the bickering continues: to mask or not to mask, to mandate or not to mandate. When not used for political or tribal posturing, these arguments at least touch on important issues of freedom and care for neighbors. But they have also taken our eye off the football--a metaphor conveniently provided by an NFL quarterback’s self-indulgent approach to the vaccine.
Margaret Diddams Reflects on Micah 6:8 and the Humanitarian Disaster Institute
Margaret Diddams, former Provost of Wheaton College, is now principal consultant with The Diddams Group and editor of Christian Scholar’s Review. Back in June 2016, as I started my new role as Provost at Wheaton College, Jamie Aten invited me to pray at the end of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) bi-annual conference.
Did COP26 Have Spiritual Implications? Yes, Says One Attendee.
A lot was at stake last monthin Glasgow, Scotland during the UN Climate Conference (COP26). The summit brought together the nations of the world to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions—to keep the crucial threshold of 1.5°C of warming in reach—and move financial support pledged to the countries most harmed by climate change. Based on these goals, COP26 fell short.
Why Your Bible Feels Like Fantasy Fiction - OnFaith
When I was a kid, my Sunday school teacher insisted that — because Eve was created from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:21-22) — all men had one rib less than women. This extra-biblical idea has a long history, especially given that until the fourteenth century, dissected bodies were mostly men. Anatomists like Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) called the extra-rib doctrine “simply ridiculous” and proved his point by simply counting ribs.
Why Are So Few Emergency Response Teams Working Against Ebola? - OnFaith
In this week’s Ebola news, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) predicted that we could see as many as 1.4 million Ebola cases in January 2015. That’s how most Ebola news works: Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol aside, in the Western media Ebola is not a story of individual human suffering, but a story of numbers. The numbers of infected, the number of reported cases, the fatality rate, the number of dead.
Action or Inaction: What Will Your Legacy Be? - OnFaith
On January 25, 1919, a group of young men sailed from New York to Beirut, Lebanon on a ship called Pensacola. Following the devastating Armenian genocide (1915-1918), these young men left their homes to live and work among the refugees and displaced people of Lebanon and Syria. Among them was a man named Ezra Deter. A conscientious objector to World War I, Ezra dedicated many years of his life to the refugees of modern day Lebanon and Syria.
You Need to Be More Shocked By What’s Happening in Iraq - OnFaith
The world should be shocked by what I’ve seen in Iraq in the last week. As Director of Emergency Relief & Global Security for Medical Teams International, I oversee the startup of emergency responses around the world. Recently, I went to Lebanon to increase some of our efforts in responding to the health needs of Syrian refugees living in the Bekaa Valley. From there I headed to Erbil, Iraq (Kurdistan) to do an assessment of the needs and security concerns in northern Iraq.
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