Examined

The impulse to help often reveals more about the helper than the helped, and understanding that asymmetry is the first step toward giving well. Part of the Render Unto series, Callista Grimshaw’s insightful book explores the complex ethics underlying charitable acts, revealing how good intentions can inadvertently cause harm or fail to address root problems.

When money shifts from a personal resource to an act of perceived obligation-whether self-imposed or socially driven-it ceases t…