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Abe calls God “the LORD who provides.”
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
There’s a whole movement of Christian health clinics around the country, sort of a medical underground: https://www.cchf.org/. Hallelujah for missional medicine!
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
Dr. James Fries, a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Jeffrey Bland • The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life
O God, defender of the poor and oppressed, we
pray for the sick poor in our midst, whose dignity is
often assaulted and who can be so vulnerable—or
even forgotten—in being able to get adequate health
care. O God, give them comfort in their sickness.
Help us to hear their cries and come to their aid.
Teach us to see with your eyes their tremendous
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For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality can be a useful guide to much of anything is risible, particularly since so many white evangelicals from 2016 forward chose to throw in their lot with a solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts, and sneers. Yet Lewis’s life suggests that religiously inspire
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