Bill Nye on Child Mortality
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Lifestyle Choice
In our day and age many Christians, including very prominent ones, have chosen a lifestyle that is fundamentally at odds with their claim to be Christians. This is a lifestyle choice I am talking about...
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Progressive Christianity in the Spotlight
The Fountains United Methodist Church recently had the experience of a number of conservative churches in its area banding together to preach against progressive Christianity. They promoted the sermon...
View ArticleWhen You Have More Than You Need
I saw this on Facebook, and thought it nicely addressed a common human instinct. When any of us rises above the general situation of poverty that characterizes human existence, our instinct is to...
View ArticleAdjust Your Priorities
If you’ve got more of a problem with the citizenry of this nation pooling their resources together to buy bread than you do with them buying bombs, your priorities are in need of adjustment. – Daniel...
View Article“Give a Man a Fish”
HT to Ross McKenzie for this useful analysis of the simplistic saying about giving a man a fish.
View ArticlePoverty in the Biblical World and Today
Another statement from a program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature: It seems that studying poverty, whether in ancient times or today, makes people more sympathetic to the plight of the poor.
View ArticleThe Poor You Will Always Have With You
Liz Theoharis writes: Keeping in mind these emphases of Deuteronomy, we can grasp the liberative dimension of Jesus’ words in Matthew 26:11, “you always have the poor with you.” After an unnamed...
View ArticleWhite Dives and Poor Old Lazarus
Jeff Carter shared the following reworking of a parable of Jesus on his blog: White Dives and Poor Old Lazarus There was a rich white man named Dives who used to dress in fine linen suits and who...
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