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By ray in Books, Facts & Statistics, Hunger & Poverty | 1 comment
ENDING HUNGER NOW
A Challenge to Persons of Faith
George McGovern, Bob Dole & Donald E. Messer
114 pages
Augsburg Fortress Press, 2005
Ending Hunger Now, like The Third Freedom, which I reviewed in an earlier post ( “A must read” 2/23/08)  is a powerful book that is a must read for anyone who is seriously committed to helping the world’s poor and hungry. The authors write from years of real life experience and remind us that we already have all the resources necessary to end huger in our lifetime.
All three authors make it abundantly clear that justice for the poor and hungry is a true litmus test of our faith. They point out that the reality of hunger in a world of plenty is a clear reflection of the truly profound moral failure of our age.
Ending Hunger Now is more than just eye-opening. It is also heart-opening. The facts and statistics are included in abundance, and in a way that makes sense. But, the book is also filled with the passion and inspiration of three men who know firsthand that if people of faith respond to our mandate to feed the hungry, we can end hunger in our age.
The book is at once both practical and encouraging. All three writers use their enormous experience, insight and inside information to make the case that the only thing we lack to end the scourge of hunger is the necessary moral conviction and political will.
The book challenges people of faith to take action, specifically to take the lead in feeding the 300 million hungry children a hot meal at school every day. Then the authors show how such a task can be accomplished.
This is more than another must read book. Ending Hunger Now is a book that advocates and activists on behalf of the hungry need to buy, study and give to their friends, families and members of their religious communities. People of faith have the power to end hunger in our lifetime. Ending Hunger Now shows us how to make it happen.
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