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Those who seek good times in drink or drugs — even casually — or seek truth with God on the outside, may seem like divas and arrogant at times, but they really are pitiful and in need of our spiritual help, even if it is resisted by them. Robin Williams, the comical genius, had those same feelings, and worked himself to death and despair to dig out of the hole he had gotten in to, both financially and relationship-wise.

Who was there with a wise spiritual word for him, and patiently waited while he wrestled with it?

Learning from the pitiful example of Mr. These types of people in our circles should be subjects for our prayers and ministry of intervention, and not our adoration. An article by the Catholic News Agency gives a pretty standard working definition of who they represented:. In fact, they depended totally on God for whatever they owned. This would comprise the overwhelming portion of people who have ever lived on the earth, including slaves, peasants, serfs, and indentured servants, and their modern variants.

The pages of history ignore these nameless people, even though they built walls, cities, bridges, dug canals, rowed ships, constructed monuments, fought the wars on behalf of the rich, blasted through mountains for the railroads, and generally built the world that we enjoy, not to mention do housekeeping, car washing, janitorial services, lawn care, fast food work and some combination thereof for most of us. However, one the earliest efforts of historical national income redistribution was not by the Communists, but by God Himself in the only government He established in detail, in ancient Israel under the guidance of the Mosaic Law.

He prevented lenders from confiscating the income-earning tools of their debtors, and even their cloaks used to keep them warm, and many other means to restrain the coercive power of income disparity. The chief of these was the jubilee year, in which the wealth expressed in real estate gradually confiscated by the wealth class had to be returned to the original historical families in the jubilee year, with all debts forgiven, as a command of the Law itself. While that occurred every fiftieth year, every seventh year the land was to experience a sabbath jubilee and rest from being cultivated, while the food the grew wild in its place was to be shared by the whole community that year, and not just the land owners.

Furthermore, Hebrew slaves were released from servitude at that time, so as to not create generations of slaves. God also instituted wise prescriptions to accommodate the socially-beneficial aspects of the Jubilee, while not unnecessarily exploiting temporary owners between their observances, such as letting them buy land on a pro-rated basis of remaining time before the jubilee.

In that economy where people depended on the crops they raised, if a family had a bad harvest and ran out of food, they were forced to go into debt or even sell their land. People did not borrow money and sell land for business purposes, they did it only out of desperate economic need. So the Jubilee was for one main purpose — to provide for the poor who had gone into debt or lost their land, so that they would be able to start over again. If a man lost his land and sold himself and his family into slavery, or if he moved out of the country, he would be likely to never see his family together again.

Part of the reason Naomi was distraught was because not only had she lost her hope for future descendants, but by leaving Israel, she also lost her family and past. When she returned, she was reunited with her family. The evidence suggests that they never did. It says in 2 Chronicles that they never let the land have its Sabbath years every seventh year, and if they never did that, they most likely never observed the year of Jubilee either. God in fact warned the Hebrews when He gave them the Law what would happen to them if they did not honor the sabbaths and jubilees, and harness their greed by letting the land rest, sharing the excess after the years of saving with the members of their community, and eventually forgiving debts and intentionally re-distributing wealth, as God prescribed for a healthy society.

The people of Israel evidently did not believe God or like His idea of restraining the wealth accumulation by their elites in competition, because it appears they did not obey the Jubilee sanctions in the Law, and as a result they were led into captivity in Babylon for as long as it took for the land to experience it lost jubilees. The Jewish Encyclopedia adds some further details.

The law of the Sabbatical year acts also as a statute of limitation or a bankruptcy law for the poor debtor, in discharging his liability for debts contracted, and in enabling him to start life anew on an equal footing with his neighbor, without the fear that his future earnings will be seized by his former creditors.

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The jubilee year was the year of liberation of servants whose poverty had forced them into employment by others. The authors also note that in the rabbinic era the leaders began to trim the provisions and shrink the utility of the jubilee, as they turned to more of a mercantile society. This process continues today in Israel. In civil law, had the legislature foreseen that a certain loophole would be exploited, it would have sealed the hole from the outset, rather then leave a breach that it invites the criminal to commit his offense.

God, however, is prescient and all-knowing.

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If a breach is found in the Torah, it cannot be that God was not aware of it from the very beginning. According to the conservative Israel National News , this technique allowed Israeli Jewish farmers to work for the Gentile owners they temporarily sold the land to rather than letting it rest or be used by the poor, and when the Ashkenazi rabbis would not support it, the farmers found Sephardic rabbis to sell the land for them. How do we in our Christian community rationalize things like that today?

A cursory review of some of the Bible verses using these terms tells a lot about how God views the poor, meek anawim , as opposed to the world:. The LORD looseth the prisoners: The Bible even notes that the government is not the only power of coercion on earth; the rich have power over the poor, in the marketplace and even the courts, if government is not used to restrain them.

No harm can come upon us. That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. Defend the poor and fatherless: Deliver the poor and needy: Likewise, God looked after the immigrant Moabitess Ruth, leading her to Israel as an undocumented immigrant to find deliverance at the hand of a citizen of Israel even though Ezra had commanded the Israelites to send wives and children of Moabite and surrounding nationality immigrant origin away to an unknown fate in exile , and later the Moabitess Ruth served as a descendant of Jesus Himself.

Jesus Himself was born into a poor, blue-collar family, having been born in an animal pen, and did hard manual labor, probably for a long time under a single mother , in almost certain poverty. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. Jesus quoted Isaiah But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Jesus was a perfect example of this: I believe that the inadequate movement by the church in Europe to minister to the exploited workers in Industrial Age Europe — not only assuring their basic needs were met but also pushing on their big business capitalist buddies to provide some form of union representation and balance to their exploitation, led the masses to be ripe for the relatively compassionate but atheistic, in terms of Marxism communist message to represent the workers, out of desperation.

The close family members I visited are clearly good Christian people, have raised solid Christian families, and have been compassionate with those around them, and I respect them. I briefly mentioned that the phrases they used I recollected as being virtually verbatim from certain cable news networks and radio talk show hosts. We saw some of those kids get free lunches or breakfasts at school, and swore we saw people at the supermarket buying T-Bone steaks with food stamps.

We actually had no idea what standard of living people could support with public assistance nor can people today unless one has been on it, but almost always grossly over-exaggerated , but there were not-so-veiled references to women in such slums having additional babies merely to gain the extra welfare checks. Enforced school busing of children from the inner city to my school, and the turmoil that caused, did not help attitudes much, leading us to be sent to a modest Christian school, ironically in the poorest and most depressing part of the inner city.

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However, if our churches obtained such faithful income from their parishioners, for reasons I just described I doubt it would be put to that noble use. I do think that some form of accountability and reward for healthy behavior is prudent, both to truly help the individual to get on their feet if that is possible, and to not bring those helping to anguish and cynicism. Why do people we try to help keep falling into repeated bouts of trouble? Well, new data seems to suggest the stress of poverty produces its own inability to make good decisions, at a time when the afflicted need it most.

The cognitive cost of poverty, that study found, was practically like losing an entire night of sleep. A study by Princeton found that. In a series of experiments, the researchers found that pressing financial concerns had an immediate impact on the ability of low-income individuals to perform on common cognitive and logic tests. On average, a person preoccupied with money problems exhibited a drop in cognitive function similar to a point dip in IQ…The poor are often highly effective at focusing on and dealing with pressing problems.

The fallout of neglecting other areas of life may loom larger for a person just scraping by…Late fees tacked on to a forgotten rent payment, a job lost because of poor time-management — these make a tight money situation worse. And as people get poorer, they tend to make difficult and often costly decisions that further perpetuate their hardship. Many in my conservative Christian circles have adopted an argument they have heard on talk radio, cable news or social media that the government systematically re-distributes the wealth from the rich and middle class to the poor.

While I do agree that its programs do accomplish a re-distribution of wealth, my look at the data and government intrusion from a more holistic view of its overall impact on society would suggest that its re-distribution is actually from the poor and middle class to the rich, and the data seems to bear that out. Does the data show this to be plausible?

Wealth owned by the bottom 90 percent, meanwhile, fell over the same period. Their net worth is underwater, meaning they owe more than they have. And the richest of the rich increased their wealth by even more. These estimates, given the billions upon billions the wealthy are hiding from U.



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Because of this, the middle class in the U. Now let me ask you — does this sound like a healthy society, and state of affairs? Does this sound more like a growing feudalistic society? Given the Bible verses we have reviewed, do American Christians have any responsibility here? Almost all American evangelicals absolutely despise Hillary Clinton, with a hatred only rivaled by that for Satan himself.

However, they considered her rival Bernie Sanders as just a nutcase. Evangelicals and those of their ilk are not known to be students of history or students of much of anything for that matter, generally not being readers of serious subject matter , but if they were it would be greatly apparent that many great empires and cultures fell in time over the growing inequality of wealth, and the inability of the underclass to survive with their plight, with violent rebellion becoming their only option — think of the slave revolts of the Roman Empire, the French monarchy, the Russian tsar, and the like.

When people have nothing left to lose, they will take desperate measures, and in the mayhem, the greedy elites will lose everything they clung to. Evangelicals have long sided with the Wall Street Republicans, including the current New York City billionaire president, who has placed Wall Street hedge fund managers and CEOs into the key cabinet positions over the financial well-being of the citizenry; it is no surprise that the first Executive Action President Trump took on Inauguration Day was to provide that financial managers did not have to disclose to their consumer clients that they are actually representing the interests of the financial product companies they represent, and not that of their paying customers.

They place in office those who actually raise their taxes in subtle ways beyond their comprehension like increasing standard deductions that are useless to most with mortgages, while quietly removing their exemptions to offset any benefits , and while cutting the taxes of wealthy corporations almost in half, and increasing the taxes on the poorest by 20 percent. This was a marked reversal from five years earlier, when 41 percent of Americans gave King a positive rating and 37 percent a negative one.

They also explained that. The Nation reported comments by Dr. King wanted to bring the actual poor people to D. He was invited to bring the protesters to the city by Senator Kennedy himself. The other politicians in D. What King sought was an Economic Bill of Rights, with the following five planks:. They sought protection for Mexicans, other Hispanics, Indians and immigrants from police abuse, and food stamps and school lunch programs to use otherwise wasted over-produced food, job training, living wages, help for poor farmers of all races, medical care for the poor, programs to allow the poor to construct and rehabilitate housing, re-commitment to the Full Employment Act of , and similar reforms.

The people formed caravans all over the country to come to Resurrection City even mule teams , under the watchful eye of the FBI; the group in Detroit was clubbed and stomped by mounted police when their van stalled. The military intelligence community also spied on the City, posing as journalists and wiretapping their phones there on the National Mall. Resurrection City had a university, a psychiatrist and a city hall on site. On a nearby campus, Chicanos, Appalachian whites, blacks and Indians stayed together, marching to the Supreme Court about fishing rights. Their Solidarity March had between 50, and , people.

After weeks, the police began firing tear gas canisters into the City, and arrested the remaining people while they were singing. Its results were modest, but it did lead to the release of food to poor communities, and increases in school lunch programs and Head Start. All of this brief introduction was a mere preamble to the real purpose of this blog post. Cornell West, who received his Ph. With his old-school Black Afro hair and intense manner of discourse on social issues, not that long ago I would have chalked him up to being just another scary black radical like the Black Panthers, and ignored him.

However, over time, I noticed that he spoke more about being a follower of Jesus and a Christian which supremely defined his ethics and actions, more so than anyone else I heard on TV, and consistently brought up his Christian faith. In fact, I read that while he admired the can-do activism of the Black Panthers, his Christian faith restricted him to local breakfast, prison and church programs. Nevertheless, he is reviled by the Right. I finally decided to get my rear off the sofa and not just think about defending the poor and defenseless, or just talk about it, but actually show up for once, and at least provide a witness of Christian support and encouragement.

I had to drive through the manic traffic to downtown Nashville, away from my suburban paradise, and begin the stressful process of finding an expensive place to park, and then try to find my way to the site of protest. I had been warned of the propensity of panhandlers in the area, who might give trouble, and indeed it appeared they were out in force at least my paranoid mind thought so , so I found myself walking on the opposite side of the streets from them to avoid trouble.

Of course, I was disturbed by the irony that I was going to an event on behalf of the poor while avoiding them personally, but I rationalized that I had to get there safely first, and that encouraging panhandlers while being concerned where what loose cash I had was being used vs.

When I finally found the place, I did not see a sea of people locked in arms like I have seen in the news reel footage of the Washington Mall in What I saw was a modest group of maybe people although I am a poor judge , all of a very motley sort, with me sticking out like a tourist from suburbia. The picture at the top of this post is from the group speaking front and center on the steps, with a small crowd on the ground. I looked around to see how big the evangelical presence was at the event — here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, and home to the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters and other evangelical groups — but I did not recognize a single evangelical type group or person in the bunch.

I saw a handful with clerical collars, but that was it. When I realized the pitifulness of the small crowd in a city known for its Christianity, and that I could not see any evangelical witness there anywhere in support of the poor, for some reason I just started to weep — pretty significantly, and uncontrollably. I just bowed my head and prayed, and asked God audibly for forgiveness for not caring enough for the poor up until now, and I felt a hand on my shoulder in support. When I looked up I found out it was one of the men in the clerical collar, who comforted me as I confessed my sin of insufficient care for the poor, and he prayed with me.

I did not have anything to write down information there Radio Free Nashville would be so disappointed in me , but I seem to recollect his name was something like Bro. I asked him what denomination he was with and he said the Unitarian-Universalist Church; the others I met there from other places were also from the Unitarians. I heard women preachers speak, a Muslim woman speaker, and saw older men waving Vietnam Veterans For Peace flags. I also talked to a dignified woman in a medical lab coat, who was there from Chattanooga as a doctor or nurse, as part of a group seeking health care for everyone.

I looked hard for someone representing my old radio station Radio Free Nashville, because this event was ideal for them, and I finally found an older gentleman sporting one of their shirts and covering the event, and I made his acquaintance. The main event of the second stage of the event was a sit-in on one of the streets downtown, singing songs and such, which was only permitted by those who had been trained beforehand to be behaved and non-violent or resistant to law enforcement.

They sang spirited songs as the buses and traffic stopped in front of them. Of course, this was the only thing that brought the local TV cameras actually, one station to cover the event and promote the cause, and everyone knows how that game is played. While I was there I noticed the police being very restrained and patient, for it was clear that this small group had no intention of endangering the public safety — rather trying to help it, in a totally unselfish manner, unlike the self-centered presidential cabinet officials we see on TV.

As I was leaving a couple hours later, I saw a woman wearing a clerical collar looking at her texts, and I introduced myself. It turned out that Rev. Joy Warren was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church! I found out that their church led groups where Christians and Muslims locally could meet each other and help each other out, and she worked hard to get her parishioners active in social events. She told me her denomination normally does not wear clerical collars, but she wore it to that event because she wanted the other people there to know that at least some Christian presence was there.

In recent years I have attended the evangelical-dominated Value Voters Summit with all the Republican candidates before the presidential election, and a major anti-sharia law conference at one of the major churches here in town, as well as a number of major Bible prophecy conferences. Upon reflection, I noticed some striking differences between this and those events and the participants:. These people were interested in my T-Shirt. This is me, with a suspect T-shirt in question I needed an alibi picture. He would certainly not be allowed in the other conferences I cited.

My new friend, who happens to be a Muslim never once tried to kill me, either. You can tell that they look like some pretty sinister people that were a threat to the public. Of course, the arrests are necessary for the media to show up and take notice of their cause, without expensive public relations firms to do the job. The article mentioned that the weekly events nationwide are part of a 40 day movement of events. There is only a moral center. Jesus set up free healthcare clinics everywhere he went. I was in jail for over 14 hours. At times it was so hot I was sweating. At times it was so cold I was shivering.

And at all times it smelled rancid. A guard saw our sunburns and assumed we had contracted a rash from being in the cells. Without windows or clocks we were deprived of our sense of time. The fluorescent lights lit everything into a brightly illuminated nowhere. It took over 9 hours until we had access to our phone call. From the architecture, to the way guards ignored or yelled at us, everything was designed in a way to strip us of our sense of self and power.

It was a very long 14 hours in jail. Why would I go through such an ordeal, stripped of my freedom and dignity? The Jesus who told the parable about the Good Samaritan, defying the racism of the time…The Jesus who died on a cross executed by a conspiracy between the religious elite and the mightiest military power of the ancient world.

The Jesus who risked arrest for his witness. I am trying to follow Jesus in naming the evils of poverty, racism, environmental degradation, and the military industrial complex. The same evils that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. I met Jesus in the woman who shared her jacket with me when I was shivering. I met Jesus in the woman who gave me a look of utmost gratitude when I offered to walk behind her in line to cover her because her pants ripped open exposing her bum when the police took her in.

I met Jesus in the woman who was arrested for crying too loudly and uncontrollably at her brothers hearing. I met Jesus in the woman who was so inspired by the Poor Peoples Campaign and that we were there with her in jail;…Those 14 hours in jail were intense, worldview shifting, hours.

I was humbled, honored, helpless and hopeful. A National Call for Moral Revival because I wanted to follow Jesus, and I was surprised to meet him in the putrid overcrowded jail cell. The problem of poverty cannot be solved merely by just throwing money at it. And yes, whenever you provide assistance to the public — even through the local church — you will find abuse and exploitation. There are ways to improperly apply assistance that not only make matters worse by means of providing money or goods for barter to support drug habits and alcohol abuse, and I guess even promote unhelpful behaviors and character traits such as sloth and lack of self-initiative, or other destructive behavior, or even reinforced feelings of inferiority.

However, few of us have very found out how little public assistance really is and those I know who work with such people can confirm this , and that it is just basic sustenance, much like Social Security. We need to promote the ideas of self-sufficiency, hard work and financial discipline in people. However, have we got those principles mastered in all the members of our own households? Do the rest of us have any problems availing of the government to get tax deductions and credits for our families and mortgages, or even financial aid and grants to send our children to school, yet look down on others who get other forms of government assistance?

Are those meals really going to be mis-used? Better yet — why not feed all our school children that way, so that the poor will not feel isolated when they use those tickets? I hear some say cynically that our nation is the only one where our poor people are fat — they never seem to realize that the waistline girth may be due to the unhealthy, fattening food that is all they can afford, or all that is offered in their inner city corner store while the big chains stay out of the neighborhood, or maybe just the lack of education on home economics and nutrition in homes where a competent parent is missing.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, these ideas are chic and are being considered in several states, and are already deployed in places in Europe and elsewhere. The abuse factor is certainly present, but would reducing poverty-based crime, drug abuse, domestic violence and suicides be worth the price? Do churches have a role in providing the moral underpinning to assist the State in lifting its lower rungs of society out of poverty, and to teach them good virtues of responsibility and self-worth?

Would churches take time away from their pet topics of financial success, gay marriage and Muslims to assign resources to such tasks? Why do you almost never hear churches ever teach about Biblical directives of hard work, stewardship, and wisdom with money, and why are its parishioners often with decent incomes some of the worst role models in these regards to show to our neighbors who have grown up in disfunctional homes?

It needs to be done smartly, and with accountability measures, while never totally eliminating the risks that come with investments — only managing them. Would it be worth it?

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Even to the point of putting less money into our overseas military adventures that entertain us and make us feel proud and exceptional? In these instances, I aspire to be like my idea of them, and my idea of their works, rather than the real things — because I cannot remember them.

This is, usually, a good thing. Of course you do. This is the internet age: So, without further ado, here are the writers I had in mind when I wrote each and every one of my books:. I will assume that clears everything up, answers all questions, clarifies the inscrutable, and casts light into the many dingy corners of my mind. There seems to be a burst of activity recently! The quibbling, displaced characters are vile and sympathetic by turns, and always startlingly American. Through sharp empathetic detail, the horrific becomes both achingly poignant and comic; a wholesome diner where no one can ever order just one piece of pie shares space with a harsh alien landscape where a quivering blue imp cowers in terror while pleading for his life.

Readers will be captivated from start to finish. The book is partially a spy story, set in a world where gods once existed, but were killed in what essentially amounts to a global coup. This is a nice thing to hear. To me, genre is really mostly a matter of discussion — genres are, in a way, conversations about similar ideas, using similar methods. Genres study common things and share ideas among themselves.

The works talk to one another, across the years. They inform one another. Shivers is part of the Horror dialogue. I went into it without Horror — any kind of Horror — on my mind at all. And though I, like dozens of people, grew up reading Stephen King, I never had him on my mind when I wrote it. I still think of it chiefly as a bleak Western with mythical elements — a weird mutt of a book that I still utterly fail to categorize to any satisfactory degree. I think this absence of specificity is not at all a limitation but the reverse, a great enhancement.

That no situational templates are built into horror grants it an inherent boundarilessness, a boundlessness, an inexhaustible unlimitedness. So do many things. Genre, right now, is all about content — for better or worse. Writing exists between the writer and the work — but reading exists between the work and the reader.

Probably not the kind we were thinking of. I found this out while waiting for a liquor superstore to open at In other news, my son went as a gnome for Halloween, and despite being 19 months old he really committed to the part:. Over the weekend, we exchanged ghost stories. And we reflected that this may well be the end of our careers. You can read mine here , and learn about my ignorance of toilet factories, as well as the Jewish culture.

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