the least of these
We need more Howard Thurman in our politics
By David B. Gowler — February 7, 2024
(RNS) — The theologian and often-overlooked civil rights hero would have warned us against politics as a zero-sum game.
Who are ‘the least of these’? Scholars say they may not be the poor
By Jonathan Merritt — May 26, 2015
(RNS) According to a growing chorus of prominent Bible scholars, Jesus was speaking about persecuted Christians rather than the poor.
COMMENTARY: Somebody else’s problem
By Tom Ehrich — September 10, 2013
(RNS) How do we deal with mounting resentment among downwardly mobile citizens? Funnel more wealth to the undeserving 1 percent, while subjecting the 99 percent to a maze of rules, police actions, dwindling benefits and a surveillance state.
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