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we study the Scriptures, we see how many texts we have misread, contextualized, and exegeted to hear what we want to. Like this one about the poor being among us, which Jesus says in the home of a leper and after a poor marginalized woman anoints his feet with perfume. The poor were all around him. Far from saying in defeat that we should not worry about the poor, since they will always be among us, Jesus is pointing the church to her true identity—she is to live close to those who suffer. The poor will always be among us, because the empire will always produce poor people, and they will find a home in the church, a citizenship in the kingdom of God, where the “hungry are filled with good things and the rich sent away empty.”
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
the liver is responding to the concentration of fructose it receives, not the amount. If the fructose trickles in slowly, the concentration of fructose to which the liver is exposed will be lower than if all of the fructose arrives at once.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
The Western democracies tend to have a problem with meaning. They promise their citizens a society in which each citizen is free to create his or her own meaning—meaning which, for most of us, becomes little more than the freedom to consume at ever higher levels.
Resident Aliens
Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon
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