HealthBridge Global Blog

Development / Mission Pitfall – Tunnel Vision

There’s a story in Romanian culture about a little bug that is living in the center of a small vegetable we are not familiar with in the US called gulie.  It’s like a cabbage, but that’s not important.  The important thing is that from inside of the cabbage, the bug begins to develop his all [...]

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Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh – Part 1

One of the best books I’ve read on Medical Missions is a personal account written by Dr. Viggo Olsen entitled Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh.  The principles he draws from his own experiences are timeless.  I was looking over the book again today and came across this quote which I feel as if I could have [...]

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Getting Taken for a Ride

Let’s be honest.  In general, Americans are fairly trusting.  We believe most people are honest.  Most of us are not paranoid that every other person is trying to rip us off.  Sure, it happens, but it’s not our greatest fear.  Americans also tend to trust people who speak English with an accent.  I don’t know [...]

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Missions Pitfall – A lack of Indigeneity in Leadership

this map above has nothing to do with this post – it’s just interesting to look at I’ve used the word Indigeneity before.  I was told that the word does not exist.  Microsoft does not recognize it as a word.  But, I just read it in a scholarly journal, so I’m going to start using it again…starting [...]

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What I Am Reading Now

Yesterday I started a new book: Roots and Remedies of the Dependency Syndrome in World Mission by Robert Reese.  My reading pace is not what it used to be so this one will take me more than a few days to plow through, but it looks very promising so far.  Reese has spent most of [...]

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The Tragedy of American Compassion

The Tragedy of American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky, is very likely one of the most spot-on, insightful, helpful, and yet provocative books I’ve read in a very long time. Olasky traces the history of the response to poverty in U.S. society from the 1600’s through the 1990’s.  Yes you read that right; from the 1600′s [...]

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