At the recommendation of a friend who is deeply involved in poverty relief, earlier this year I read Gary Anderson's, Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition. The book's development of the Bible's teachings on poverty relief is insightful and convicting. I took a few college students through the material, so I wanted to turn my notes into a short series for this blog. Not everything in the book was convincing, but enough was to make the book's material worth revisiting in these articles.