Tuesday, December 20: Giles Fraser - ""Economic justice is the number one moral issue in the Bible."

AM  Psalm 66, 67    PM  Psalm 116, 117
1 Samuel 2:1b-10
Titus 2:1-10
Luke 1:26-38
 Thank you Hannah:
‘There is no Holy One like the Lord,
   no one besides you;
   there is no Rock like our God.
Talk no more so very proudly,
   let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
   and by him actions are weighed.
The bows of the mighty are broken,
   but the feeble gird on strength.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
   but those who were hungry are fat with spoil.
The barren has borne seven,
   but she who has many children is forlorn.
The Lord kills and brings to life;
   he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
   he brings low, he also exalts.
He raises up the poor from the dust;
   he lifts the needy from the ash heap,
to make them sit with princes
   and inherit a seat of honour.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
   and on them he has set the world. 

And this from an interview in The Guardian with Giles Fraser, the priest who resigned his job as Canon of the Cathedral of St. Paul's in London, rather than go along with the injunction to remove the protesters from church property:
"He remains unswervingly positive about Occupy as a "new form of protest". He characterises it as "frustratingly democratic" because when he has said to protesters "take me to your leader", there has turned out to be no leader. And yet, as he remarks, the advantage of this is obvious: "You have to engage with the issues."He sees it as appropriate that the camp should be outside St Paul's on a "fault line between God and Mammon" and observes: "Economic justice is the number one moral issue in the Bible."

read the entire interview here: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/18/giles-fraser-faces-2011-occupy?CMP=twt_fd