Poverty
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The Chasms
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3 min read
In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, we are given the chance to see, not what is fixed, but what can be changed.
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Being Mary
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9 min read
Mary anoints Jesus’s feet. Judas argues for the prudent use of resources. Why do we always side with Judas?
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Paul, James, and the politics of poverty
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13 min read
Today’s conversations about poverty are based on a fundamentally flawed argument.
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Rich
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2 min read
There’s a strange view people have about money: that it somehow is permanently theirs.
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The problem with the way we talk about poverty
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7 min read
Our skeptical approach to talking about poverty is gross. It’s also intellectually lazy and fundamentally based on opinion, not reality.
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Devouring Their Houses
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8 min read
Jesus doesn’t simply criticize the priests for their hubris, he exposes the whole system for its corruption, exploitation, and rejection of the poor. of poverty and hubris in the Temple Proper 27B | Mark 12:38-44 Less than a week after starting at my first congregation out of seminary, I went to my first clericus—a meeting of…