ONE really good thing to do...

This makes sense to me.

(And it seems like Bono, Rick Warren, Billy Graham, John Stott, Dikembe Mutombo, Michael W. Smith, Pat Robertson, Brad Pitt, Switchfoot, Third Day and host of others both famous and not-so-famous also think so). 

So I signed. It seems the (very) least I could do.

(HT: Mark Daniels.  Thanks Mark.)

Comments

[Derek Simmons]

Tod:
In this blog, you say that the following makes sense to you:
"....WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs – education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans – would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget..."

Are you sure? And if you are, help me and others in the blogosphere to see what you see.

Yours in Him,
Derek Simmons

[Tod]

Derek,
I will post more on this in the future. As you know I am nor more an economist than Brad Pitt is. But Jeffrey Sachs is the "brain" behind all of this and in his book, "The End of Poverty" he makes a compelling case that not only should we end the most extreme forms of poverty in this next generation, but that we CAN.

I truly believe the church should be every part of that effort.

[Derek Simmons]

Tod:

You laud Jeffrey Sach's book as the basis for your support of "ONE", AND you confess "Okay, so far I've only read the excerpts, but this is my next read."
So that I might have the "Reader's Digest" version too, what "excerpts" impressed you sufficiently to "sign on"?

Yours in Him,
Derek Simmons