Archive for February, 2010

Interview with ‘Travety in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 3

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Interview with ‘Travety in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 3

This is the last part of my interview with Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking author, Dr. Tim Schwartz. (You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.) I am extremely grateful to Dr. Schwartz for his time and his thorough responses. If... »

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The gospel to the poor

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The gospel to the poor

I’m sure I had never seen the above photo before this week. That is to say, I hope I’m not so calloused as to have forgotten such a sight: A lone vulture stalking a starving Sudanese child as she crawls toward a food center more than half a mile away. For the photo famed... »

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Interview with ‘Travesty in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 2

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Interview with ‘Travesty in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 2

This is the second part of the interview with Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking author, Dr. Tim Schwartz. (Read the first part here.) MD: Is there a solution to what seems to be the logistics issues that came to the fore after the... »

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Interview with ‘Travesty in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 1

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Interview with ‘Travesty in Haiti’ author, Dr. Tim Schwartz-Part 1

Last week I published a review of Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking by Dr. Timothy T. Schwartz. (Read that review here.) The book was so eye-opening that I immediately started trying to track down the author for an interview. Although Dr. Schwartz has... »

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Kim Phuc, girl in iconic Vietnam War photo, speaks of love and forgiveness

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Kim Phuc, girl in iconic Vietnam War photo, speaks of love and forgiveness

To see her picture once is to have seen it a thousand times; the image is just as sobering today as it was in June of 1972 when it appeared in newspapers around the globe. The children fleeing the fire of napalm bombs in South Vietnam, running down the road from their village and,... »

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‘Shutter Island,’ movie review

Friday, February 19th, 2010
‘Shutter Island,’ movie review

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) opened today. A creepy, dark (not to mention windy and rainy) adaptation of an exceptionally good novel, the 2+ hour faithful rendering will be a surprising movie to those who have not read the... »

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‘Travesty in Haiti,’ book review

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
‘Travesty in Haiti,’ book review

When I returned from Haiti on February 8, the first thing I started doing was looking for books that could help make sense of some of the things I had seen that obviously predated the earthquake: the extreme poverty, regularly being asked for money or things, and nightmarish logistical situations that seemingly prevented needs... »

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Engineers combine faith, skills and passion to rescue Haiti and the world

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Engineers combine faith, skills and passion to rescue Haiti and the world

CHARLESTON, S.C.—Having provided clean water solutions to the world’s largest natural disasters—including the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone—engineers at Christian nonprofit engineering relief and development organization Water Missions International know that the worst in Haiti may be yet to come. “For our team, the race against the clock... »

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What do you believe about the afterlife? A martyduren.com poll

Friday, February 12th, 2010
What do you believe about the afterlife? A martyduren.com poll

Of course this is an unscientific poll, but I’d like to get responses across the board. Email this to friends and family, post to Digg or reddit, or on message boards. I’m curious as to the worldviews of folks who stop by this site. Thx. »

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A collection of photos from Haiti

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
A collection of photos from Haiti

Articles and other photos from my Haiti trip: My relief trip to Haiti, Part 1 Medical missions in Haiti, Part 2 The Haitian government is right to hold 10 Americans for kidnapping A few of the books available on Haiti: »

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