a recent commentary in Sojourners magazine was less than fully impressed by the fact that multibillionaire American Ted Turner recently gave one billion dollars to the United Nations, stating, “I’m putting the rich on notice. They are going to be hearing from me about giving money away.” Instead of celebrating Turner’s huge gift, Sojourners commented that “God put the rich on notice a long time before Ted Turner did” and the more important question is “why one man can have so much to spare (and get praised for it!) in a country where poverty (especially among children!) is on the rise.”3 That
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