by Miguel A. De La Torre | Nov 17, 2010 | Opinion
“Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. The seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, you shall do no work that day” (Exodus 20:8-10). How many times have you sat during a service only to hear some minister...
by Trevor Grundy | Nov 12, 2010 | News
EDINBURGH, Scotland (RNS/ENInews) British churches have criticized a government plan to remove unemployment benefits from people who refuse to accept jobs offered by labor officers. “There is a serious danger that people living in poverty will be stigmatized by...
by Wendell Griffen | Aug 5, 2010 | Opinion
Based on media reports, elected officials at the highest levels of government in the United States are expressing concern ranging from apprehension to alarm about the size of the federal deficit. Some members of Congress and those who share the Tea Party concept of...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 8, 2010 | Opinion
I grant that Jesus didn’t include aid to the unemployed in his litany about the sheep on the right hand and goats on the left, as recorded in Matthew 25. But, as a graduate school professor of mine once said about things Jesus reportedly didn’t say:...
by Mark Woods | Sep 29, 2009 | Opinion
The poor you always have with you, Jesus said. But the mark of a civilized society is that it will set a limit to that poverty. France’s Henri IV said that he would have no peasant in his kingdom too poor to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. A modest aim...
