"Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger"

This summer, I’ve been volunteering at the Clothes Horse at Trinity. The Clothes Horse is a ministry where donated clothing and household items are available free of charge to Trinity graduate and divinity students. With two others at the Clothes Horse, I read Ronald Sider’s book “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving From Affluence to Generosity.” Overall, I enjoyed the book, even if it’s repetitive and contains too many numbers. Since moving to the northwest suburbs of Chicago, I have become more and more challenged by how I view money, specifically as it relates to the church. I want to be generous. I want to give graciously and live in a way that allows for greater generosity. I want to fight poverty, and I am bothered that children are dying as I write this because they don’t have food or clean water or their mom had unsanitary birthing conditions. Perhaps I should be more bothered by the fact that getting bothered only lasts for two minutes and I don’t actually change anything to give more to the poor. I’ll stop typing this, go to bed, and tomorrow will be another day where I think entirely too much about myself and barely at all about anyone else. But I still have this tug, this tug to do something more for the poor and oppressed, to make my theology reflect the priority given to this area in the Bible, to fight injustice and poverty and oppression.