Poverty – Drew Downs

Serving the best stuff—for Epiphany 2C

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In the wedding feast at Cana, we see Jesus’s first miracle; but it is a curious one. It sets a tone for what kind of miracle-worker he is.

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There is a common perception that we be smart with money — and that poverty is evidence of stupidity. The real virtue is generosity.

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In a story, usually read as a matter of faithfulness, we receive a much louder critique of an impoverishing system of inequality.

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To go without food and water is deadly. And in recent times, we started to treat access as a luxury for people to earn.

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a poem (with commentary) about the relationship between poverty and suicide—and our common willingness to ignore it.

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We often think about borders as a line, dividing two places, but our borders are places, too. And they are inhabited.