Putting Money Where the Mouth Is

I recently read an article in World Magazine that I will re-post here about Christian giving.   The article interestingly enough shows that Christian organizations such as World Vision, Samaritans Purse, and Compassion receive far more finical support through giving than any pro life or religious liberties organization (Focus on the Family, and ADF). Giving to World Vision totals 1.2 Billion, Compassion 404 Million, Samartians Purse 305 million, Focus on the Family 119 Million, and about 50 Million combined total for Alliance Defense Fund (28 Mil), Family Research Council (11.4 Mil), National Right to Life( 9 Mil), and Americans Unite for Life ( 3 Mil).

Faithful givers

A common complaint leveled at evangelical Christians, according to David French, is that they're obsessed with gays and abortion. "The criticism is so common that it's often internalized and adopted by the church itself," he writes. So French, director of the Alliance Defense Fund ("a card-­carrying member of the professional religious right"), decided to crunch some numbers—and found there's no comparison between what Christians give to cause-oriented organizations like his and what they give to anti-poverty groups like World Vision. We fight culture wars, he said, but our charitable obsession is "serving our fellow man."