Happy Thanksgiving! The Problem of Citizenship The Law of God and Public Policy: On Immigrants and Immigration (4) Does everyone who lives here have to belong here? “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as ...
Love the Stranger The Law of God and Public Policy: On Immigrants and Immigration (3) The Law of God does not promote preferential treatment of the poor. “For the LORD your God is a God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial ...
A Call to Thanksgiving The Law of God and Public Policy: On Immigrants and Immigration (2) What can immigration pressures tell us about our nation? “For the LORD your God is a God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and ...
The Attraction of Justice The Law of God and Public Policy: On Immigrants and Immigration (1) A just society will attract those trapped in injustice. “Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will ...
Escaping Poverty The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (7) A just society encourages the poor to rise above their circumstances. “Hear therefore, O Israel, and do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your ...
Tithes and Loans The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (6) Neighbors must be prepared to provide monetary relief to the poor. “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within ...
The Dignity of Work The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (5) The poor are expected to work for their sustenance. “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings ...
A Local Concern The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (4) Caring for the poor is a local responsibility. “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden ...
No Preferential Treatment The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (3) The Law of God does not promote preferential treatment of the poor. “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge ...
Who Are the Poor? The Law of God and Public Policy: Responsibility for the Poor (2) People fall into poverty for various reasons, not all of them just. “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge.…” Deuteronomy 24:17 There will ...