poverty – Red Letter Christians

Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19

January 6, 2021

Instead, we perpetuate myths about homelessness that embolden our stance against policy that will set them free. We stay secure in our implicit and explicit beliefs that certain people have opted out of deserving our compassion.

We Ring Our Bells for You, America

William J. Barber and Liz Theoharis

October 27, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

At noon on each day of the week prior to November 3rd—and each hour on the hour as Americans vote on Election Day—faith communities in all 50 states will ring bells from our houses of worship and on the sidewalks of our communities. These bells will toll for you, calling every American to march to the polls and protect voting rights.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Jon Mathieu

September 25, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

God clearly was not concerned with capitalist sensibilities. God’s sense of justice was not constrained by the laws of the free market or Friedman’s shareholder theory. What is fair and right and just in God’s eyes is for no one to live in poverty

Lunchtime Grace: Lessons from the Meal Line

April Keech

September 11, 2020

Church Life, General, Practical Justice

For this man revealed the compassion of Christ to cover someone who was exposed, to protect someone in their nakedness, and at risk to himself, broke the rules of the lunch time line. He taught me something about the reach of grace.