Nonprofit recycles U.S. books for Third World seminaries

KENTWOOD, Mich.-Talking amid shelves of books in a warehouse littered with huge boxes of even more books, Kurt Berends describes his nonprofit organization this way: “We’re waste removal.” Of course, that’s only half the story. The real magic of Theological Book Network comes in turning academic trash from U.S. libraries into treasure for under-resourced areas […]

KENTWOOD, Mich.-Talking amid shelves of books in a warehouse littered with huge boxes of even more books, Kurt Berends describes his nonprofit organization this way: “We’re waste removal.” Of course, that’s only half the story. The real magic of Theological Book Network comes in turning academic trash from U.S. libraries into treasure for under-resourced areas in other parts of the world.

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