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In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free? Sarah Jaffe |
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such. Martin Luther King, Jr. Principles: 1. global justice over nationalism 2. respect for people of other faiths and backgrounds 3. support for the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 4. religious liberty 5. recognition of structural sin 6. preferential option for the poor 7. rejection of capital punishment 8. compatibility of theology and science more |
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The Saturday Night Theologian Exegesis of Word and World, based on readings from the Revised Common Lectionary Readings for 22 January 2012 (Epiphany 3) Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalm 62:5-12; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 Have you ever been assigned a task and worked hard on it, only to find at the end that you'd done your job too well? A member of one of my former churches found himself in such a predicament a few years ago. . . . Several years ago I preached a series of sermons in the Gospel of Mark that I called "A Walk with Jesus." What I encouraged my congregation to do was to set aside everything they thought they knew about Jesus and walk with him through Mark as though it were their first encounter. There's a good theological reason for doing this. . . . As you prepare for worship this weekend, click here to read exegeses of this week's readings by Tod O. L. Mundo. Click here to see comments on the readings of previous weeks. Each week's commentaries will include comments from previous weeks, plus at least one completely new exegesis. |
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