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The nonprofit-sector leader talks to Craig Kennedy and Michael E. Hartmann about the politics of policy reform in philanthropy, the pressures brought to bear on those either proposing or receptive to reform, and the importance of the nonprofit sector.

It is understandable, and in some ways even admirable, that many Christians feel a responsibility to directly care for the poor. But the Biblical mandate to care for the poor should not be taken as a mandate to be in charge.