Thomas Haweis, Anglican revivalist, considers corrupt hearts in business. Somethink it’s fine to grab everything if you’re honest. These folks become slaves to this mindset without fully realizing the spiritual danger they are in. Even if they are merely providing for their own houses.
Today, would we instead be told that those who criticize wealth creators (ex: Lausanne) are the ones in sin or danger?
How can you consider accumulation?
Henry Moncreiff-Wellwood, Church of Scotland moderator, considers Christian history. Early church is full of accounts of alms-giving as an essential part of the character of true believers, enforced as an essential duty.
Today, instead of viewing alms as essential character of Christians, do we besmirch the character of refugees or migrants, as we campaign against them getting near our neighborhood?
How can you give alms today?
Members of #Canadian #parliament heard #testimony Tuesday from #Iranian human rights #advocates, #dissidents, #victims and an #exiled artist on the brutality of the #IslamicRepublic, and called on Ottawa to take more action.
#HumanRights advocate and founder of #StopChildExecution Nazanin Afshin-Jam told the House of Commons Subcommittee on Human Rights that #Iran is "waging a war on #women and #girls."
Accused of rotting the fibers of society, the southern poet An Mei was #exiled to the northern steppes to contemplate her life choices.
"How will you continue in this barren land?" she was asked on her first night on the windy plains. A good question for one whose words of dissent came clothed in the wet heat and ten thousand colors of her tropical district.
"I'll remake myself and my work," she replied, eyes on the vast horizon, the mercilessly bright stars.
