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Article: Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- November 13, 2007
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Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World.
Edited by Pamela K. Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters and Laura A. Stivers. Westminster John Knox, 176 pp., $19.95 paperback.
CHRISTIANS CAN BE quite good at feeling guilty. We feel guilty if we commute to work by car, but we also feel guilty if we don't earn enough money to buy a house in the suburbs with a yard for our kids to play in. We feel guilty if we buy jeans manufactured cheaply in sweatshops, but we feel guilty if we spend money on expensive clothes that could otherwise be spent on charity toward others.
Not surprisingly, this kind of guilt tends to be the privilege ...