Items of Interest February 28, 2011 Issue

The debt we all can pay

Russ Gerber

“Cutting the deficit of humanity” From the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog December 14, 2010

Wealth has funded social goals, self-interests, educational grants, lavish spending, political clout, you name it. The larger question is: When you take away wealth, what’s at work in the mind of the individual? What values does he or she cling to and act on regardless of the size of the bank account? That’s telling.

Also telling is a story in the New Testament that takes place at mealtime where one of the guests is Jesus. The host of the meal is a Pharisee, Simon, who may have had a comfortable lifestyle for the times and who, on the surface, showed an appropriate degree of hospitality to his guests.

Well, except to one person in the room.

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