Samuel Shaw was an English nonconformist minister. He says to make a trade out of interest/usury, to get one’s living out of the sweat of other’s brows, is condemned as wicked and idle. Even the very patrons of usury (responsible banking & commerce?) would oppose such a life.

Are we all engaged in something that was condemned in the medieval church and a few passages of Scripture?

How can we avoid getting a living out of the sweat of other’s brows?

#christian #godspeaks #lovewell #generosity

Everything heals and grows when it is loved well. People, too.

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Peter Randolph was a Baptist minister who escaped slavery. In his autobiography, he considers the tears of slaves. He predicts that they will fill a cup of wrath that would be poured out upon the nation by God.

How can you consider the tears of the poor today?

#christian #donate #lovewell #rejectCRT #liveinlove

Charles Henry Parkhurst, NYC Presbyterian minister, considers personhood, an idea slowly gaining acceptance with time. Brotherhood entitles others to my love and gentle ministration.

We had a political season of saying F to other’s feelings. Church leaders stated kindness as a vice. Gentle ministration is a crime if it encourages the wrong people to enter the country.

How can you consider the personhood of others today?

#christian #purposedriven #shifttheculture #lovewell #nokidhungry

When a person de-humanizes their political opponent they are at great danger of becoming the very thing they despise.

In all things, pursue the way of love. #LoveWell

@davidtoddmccarty @laurenrelarkin I know it feels that way and in so many ways you’re right. There is a spiritual rot in American Christianity, to be sure.

Yet, I see a different side of things in my home Sunday nights and in the pub Tuesday nights. At least in these two little spaces love and the desire to #lovewell dominates.