Currently reading…
Finished in 2010…
What I read in 2009
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Nineteen Minutes
-
The Stranger
- A High View of Scripture?
- The Blue Parakeet
- The Great Brain
- Introduction to the Bible
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- The Natural
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Candy Girl
- Fight Club
- Starship Troopers
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- World Without End
- SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World
- SuperFreakonomics
- No Country for Old Men
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Pillars of the Earth
Friday, September, 25, 2009
Posted at: 5:00 am
“Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.”
This is my favorite law in all of Leviticus. The landowners and the wealthy were to leave odds and ends behind in their fields so that the poor and downtrodden could find food.
This is an amazing form of welfare. The well-off are required to sacrifice for the good of the community. At the same time, those in need are not given a handout, but must work to earn their sustenance.
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