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In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how the monks would rise at 3:15 a.m. for Vigils, shuffling through cold corridors in darkness,...
A small progressive congregation in Portland decided to rethink their annual stewardship campaign. Instead of pledge cards and guilt-laden sermons, they hosted a neighborhood potluck...
William Hayley, M.A., observed that true and substantial happiness depends necessarily upon morality and religion.
The Phoenician city distributed crowns to her colonies like a cupboard dispensing royal insignia—a satire on false authority.
Naomi's question to Ruth—"Where hast thou gleaned to-day?"—invites us into three vital truths about our stewardship before Yahweh. First, the *sphere* of life's opportunities. Labour is the law of life itself. The Lord has "set before thee an open door"...
In the heart of our contemporary world, we find ourselves wrestling with the stark realities of economic inequality. We are surrounded by the profound chasm between affluence and poverty, a reality that can seem insurmountable. Yet into this complex landscape,...
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
In our contemporary society, where the chasm of economic inequality seems to grow wider with each passing day, the call to generosity rings louder than ever. The wisdom of James 1:27 reminds us that true religion is not merely about...
By 1944, the Weihsien internment camp near Weifang, China, had stripped its prisoners down to almost nothing. Among the roughly 1,800 Allied civilians held by...
Poverty strikes those whose circumstances lie beyond their control—infirmity, disease, social oppression, misfortune—often accompanied by virtue and piety.
We must distinguish between the purpose for which property is sought and the moral purpose answered by the process itself.
With the remaining timber, he carves a god and falls before it in worship.
There exists a natural liberality, constitutional to certain temperaments.
The companion of Yahweh rejects the fruits of oppression.
Exell's exposition from *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes two interpretations: first, discharge all existing debts faithfully; second, avoid contracting debt altogether.
Exell's Victorian commentary examines this through the lens of labour justice, tracing how Elohim transformed Adam's punishment into humanity's greatest dignity.
Yet this truth becomes luminous when understood through the husbandman's labor—the farmer who scatters seed receives a multiplied harvest (2 Corinthians 9:6).
In our contemporary landscape, where economic inequality looms large, the call to generosity can feel both daunting and imperative. Yet, amidst this complexity, we find in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 a profound guide that transcends time and culture. Paul writes, "Love...
Exell reminds us that our differences—intellectual, artistic, moral—are not occasions for despair or pride, but invitations to humility.
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up...
The way of genuine beneficence unfolds in three movements: first, we give bountifully, not grudgingly.
It was "the tillage of the poor"—the careful, diligent husbandry of the man with only a small patch of land—that filled the storehouses of the Holy Land.
Peter's response cuts to the heart of a peculiar modern delusion: "Thy money perish with thee." Simon believed, as many in our commercial age believe, that wealth can purchase anything—even the gifts of Elohim.
Joseph Exell preserved two Victorian illustrations of this principle in action.