I am a little slow getting to this one but Sight, out of Australia, has an interesting interview with Jim Wallis.
“Tim Costello said today that ‘Poverty is the slavery of our age'. I think he’s right. Poverty is the new slavery…With Charles Finney in the US and John Wesley and Wilberforce in the UK, the altar call (meant) coming to faith and commit oneself to the movement to abolish slavery. That’s happening now again. I think poverty is becoming perceived now as the new slavery: that extreme, absolute poverty is intolerable, that it’s not necessary, it’s not inevitable, that it’s something we could change and change relatively easily if we ever decided to. And a whole generation now are saying it’s time we make that decision…
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