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THE WYCLIFFE COLLEGE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER JANAUARY 13 2020 | VOL. 14
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UPCOMING EVENTS
BY Ann Jervis Jesus talked a lot about money. Though I haven’t done the accounting, I suspect that money is one of his primary topics. Think of Jesus’ parables: the lost coin, the two debtors, the rich man and Lazarus, the Pharisee and the tax collector, the talents, and so on. Jesus’ talk about money may partly be rooted in who his listeners were. When he taught in Galilee, Jesus’ listeners were people whose economic life was insecure. They were agrarian and overtaxed – some estimates are that the tax rate was 30 per cent. If there was a bad harvest or catches of fish, many went into debt in order to pay the tax. And once a debtor, it was next to impossible to climb back into a good economic place. Given the circumstances of his listeners, we might expect that Jesus would have said some explicit things about resisting Roman taxes, or that he would have helped his followers to create a movement demanding economic justice. Some interpreters of the New Testament think that is what Jesus was doing when he talked about the kingdom of God.
Jan 15, Wed Wednesday Event with Prayer Book Society, p. 3
Jan 20-24 Mission Week—More info to come
Jan 22, Wed Wednesday Event with Bishop Kenya Wondera at 3 p.m.
Jan 31, Fri Theology Pub Night, p. 3
Feb 18, Tues
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