illuminate network

There is deep wisdom in the early desert Monsatic asceticism and the vow of poverty of centries old monastic movements and yet whenever I talked to my neighbors and homeless friends about a vow of poverty they either laugh or gave me a puzzled stare. 'Have you ever been poor?' some asked. I began to how myopic my vision was, and how narrow my language. It reeked of privilege. So i suggest we need a third way, neither the prosperity gospel nor the pover5ty gospel but the gospel of abundance rooted in a theology of enough.

And after seeing plenty of poor folks forced into economic crimes by their poverty and after seeing plenty of rich folks so content that they forget they need God or anyone else, I think we are all ready for somethign new.

The Irresistible Revolution- Shane Claiborne