...Clayborne Carson Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 W illiam julius wilson’s book is the most thoughtful study of urban poor blacks to appear in many years. But it is cause for dismay as well as optimism. On the one hand, the book represents a significant departure from most writings...

... late, and poor Pepi was dying. Poor thing!—he’d been ailing for weeks. Since birth Pepi has been susceptible to respiratory infections, a genetic flaw for which someone is to blame, yet what good are accusations, at such a time? Pepi himself is partly to blame, I’m afraid. One of us would...

... niversity, M elbourne, a n d is the a u th o r o fsev­ eral books, in c lu d in g The Spirituality Revolution, R outledge, 2 0 0 4 . Who Should Take Care of the Poor...

...POOR Magazine ( poormagazine.org ) Participants in POOR Magazine ’s revolutionary youth media education program paint a mural in San Francisco’s Clarion Alley in summer 2011. ...

... Care of the Poor? by Tony Campolo EVERAL YEARS AGO, RO N SlD ER , A PROFESSOR AT PALMER THEOLOGICAL Seminary in Philadelphia, created...

... label, not ours) and focus on bigger concerns? Surely we can find common ground March fo r Womens Lives, with the evangelical mainstream on issues affecting children and the poor. Washington DC, 2004. We must resist the temptation to bury sexual justice beneath common...

.... There are many situations in which debts clearly lack moral validity. One particular egregious case involves debt bondage. Only desperately poor people agree to loans forcing them to work for a lender for extended periods of time. Though recognized as a modern form of slavery, often passed through generations...

... us that “the poor of your city take precedence” (Sifre). We need to think seriously about whether or not we are prepared to live up to the beautiful sentiments expressed by Emma Lazarus: “Give me your tired, your poor… the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost...

...Creative Commons/Tomaz Silva of Agência Brasil Facing page: Rachel Shayne Edelstein ( rachelshayne.com ) Pope Francis visits the São Francisco De Assis Na Providência Hospital, an addiction treatment facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that offers free medical care to the poor. ...

... dollars … mending, darning, bleaching.” Yes, these texts are set in the decades of Piercy’s girlhood, but her descriptions of what it’s like to be poor—the condition of always making do, the exhaustion of worrying about how to pay the next rent check or heating bill—remain fresh and relevant. And although...

... the fine exception of QNews, a British magazine, I have heard very little from any “Muslim” source on the misery in this predominantly Muslim country, on the poor th at will die and be forgotten by the world while we rem ain...

.... better be made cannot few and that nutrition, poor children especially,children look overfed in when, fact, malnourished...

..., “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach good 5 0 TIKKUN WWW.TIKKUN.ORG SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007 news to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and to set free all of those who are oppressed.” Remem­...