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Article: Who Should Take Care of the Poor?
- Article from:
- Tikkun
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Institute of Labor and Mental Health Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SEVERAL YEARS AGO, RON SIDER, A PROFESSOR AT PALMER THEOLOGICAL Seminary in Philadelphia, created an organization called Evangelicals for Social Action. Sider, author of one of the most important religious books of the last fifty years, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, was out to convince the Evangelical community that caring for the poor was a Biblical imperative. By using Scripture, Sider made many Christians aware that they could not avoid the call of God to live sacrificially and to give what they could to help those millions of persons, both in America and in the Third World, who have been oppressed by poverty.
At first, Sider's critics claimed that what he wrote was nothing more ...