realized, for example, that I’d been taught to formulate an entire economic philosophy around Paul’s instructions to the Thessalonian church that “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) while setting aside hundreds of other biblical passages that call for economic justice for the poor, including those too disadvantaged to work. Volunteering at a local free health clinic, where I cried with patients enduring terrible, chronic pain because they couldn’t afford their medication, upended for me the notion that the only biblical position on America’s health care
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