Morning Meditation: Economic Justice and the Kingdom

Loving God, whose icon shines in every human face, This morning I sit with the story of the Samaritan road — that dusty stretch between Jerusalem and Jericho where a man lay stripped and bleeding, and two religious professionals crossed to the other side. The priest and the Levite had temples to attend and tithes to count. But the Samaritan — the outsider, the one no respectable person would share a cup with — knelt in the dirt and poured out oil and wine on a stranger's wounds.…