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Aug
Aug
My Intro to Micro-Financing
Last week I finally bit the bullet and did something I’ve been meaning to do for quite sometime: join Kiva. For those unaware, Kiva is an organization whose goal is to see worldwide poverty eliminated. They go about things differently though than your typical aid organization: they provide local people with small micro-loans [...]
23
Apr
Apr
Savage Capitalism
One recent book acquisition is [Liberation Theology after the End of History][1] by Daniel M. Bell, Jr. I got it from an interest in Latin American liberation theology (spurred originally by my reading of [Torture and Eucharist][2] last year). The book is billed as “…the most thorough account to date of the rise, [...]