Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith

by Bob Dole, Donald E. Messer

Writing for congregations and individuals of faith, McGovern, Dole, and Messer appeal to the biblical, theological, and ethical foundations of action against hunger.

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Justice

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

Robert J. Dole was born on the twenty-second day of July 1923, in Russell Kansas. He served as a US military officer during WWII, Kansas House of Representatives member, lawyer, County Attorney of Russell County, United States House of Representatives, US Senator, USA Vice President Candidate in 1976 (ran with Gerald Ford as President), competed for the USA Presidential Canidate slot on the Republican ticket in 1980 (losing out to Reagan), and in 1988 (losing to Bush), and Republican nominee for US President in 1996.

Dole was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on January 17, 2018. He was married to former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina.

In February 2021 he announced he had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. He passed away on December 5th, 2021.

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book was outdated. But it was thought provoking. My big take-away. If there are over 3 billion Christians in this world and Jesus taught us to feed the hungry, why are there over 800 million people who are hungry and malnourished? Not to mention that the Jewish, Muslim, and Buddism faiths also teach caring for the hungry.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lost in the current political upheaval are the world's hungry. One billion out of the world's population of 6.5 billion live on less than $1 a day. 800 million go to bed hungry every night, many of them children. Ending Hunger is a possiblity of our age. We lack only the political will. Yet no one who calls himself Christian can escape the obilgation to feed the world's hungry.

[Gwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well-written by three credible authors, each of whom has worked to end world-wide hunger for years. Makes you believe it really can be done, if most of the world's people and governments cooperated - that's always the rub, isn't it?

On the United Methodsit Women's Reading Program.

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book on how all of us can end hunger around the world if we just had the political will to do so. Quite eye-opening.

[Angie Whittemore · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good argument for the moral obligation of any believing person to help relieve human suffering.