Do you know about Goodsearch, the search engine that generates money for your favorite charity (including The Salvation Army)with each search? It is a fine search engine - powered by Yahoo (whatever that means; I'm not too savy on the Information Super-Highway) since I've started using it.

This reminds me of some other ways to be merciful and just without giving up anything you would normally do. Ways like the The Gap's Red Campaign or drinking Fair Trade Coffee. Of course, there is actually buying less clothes and coffee and using that money to buy lunch for a needy person or sponsoring a child in a developing country.

Perhaps this idea is a bit like cheap mercy, as in cheap grace. Still, it seems like a no brainer. It could also be a good way to get people doing justice at an entry level.

By the way, sponser a child. $20 (USD) with the Salvation Army. Just google it, er Goodsearch it.