Review of "When Helping Hurts"

Check out an article in WORLD magazine, written by Joel Belz, about When Helping Hurts. Here's a little of what he says:

Are poor people poor because they're paying the price for their own personal failures—or because the systems in which they find themselves have been broken and have failed the people within them?

It is, of course, an age-old question. Authors Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett, in a brand new book called When Helping Hurts, note that political conservatives have tended to stress the former explanation, while liberals have emphasized the latter. Which, they ask, is correct?

To the question—is it personal behavior or systemic structure that produces poverty?—When Helping Hurts never cheats by merely trying to split the difference or to find a clever balance. The book is built instead, from beginning to end, on a radically biblical foundation that assumes the pervasiveness of the fall after God's good creation. The fall, according to Fikkert and Corbett, profoundly affects both individuals and systems. Both need profound redemption.

Read the entire article here.

Also, the book was the #1 seller on the Westminster Bookstore online last month, where it is also on sale for the great price of $9.89.