{"id":2305,"date":"2011-11-11T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2011-11-11T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:27:01","slug":"richard-stearns-world-vision-on-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/11\/11\/richard-stearns-world-vision-on-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stearns \/ World Vision on Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204190704577026391811161000.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion\">today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal<\/a>, World Vision President Richard Stearns writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One objection that I often hear from evangelicals is that while aid is good, it is not the government&#8217;s job. Yes, individuals and churches play a vital role in aid and development. But governments play a unique and vital role that private organizations cannot. The poverty-focused programs in the foreign-aid budget are facing cuts of between $1.2 billion and $3.2 billion from 2010 levels. In comparison, the largest American Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has a budget of $308 million for its missionary and aid organization.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot let others suffer simply because times are tough in the U.S. All Americans must understand the urgency of the human need and the effectiveness of our government&#8217;s aid programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, World Vision President Richard Stearns writes: One objection that I often hear from evangelicals is that while aid is good, it is not the government&#8217;s job. Yes, individuals and churches play a vital role in aid and development. But governments play a unique and vital role that private organizations cannot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-and-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-Bb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}