David Creech is Assistant Professor of Religion at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and former Director of Hunger Education for ELCA World Hunger.
Review: Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality in Our Communities (WJK, 2017)
March/April 2018: Dignity, Challenge, and ELCA Social Statements (Volume 18 Issue 2)
There is much to be commended in L. Shannon Jung’s new book, Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality in Our Communities. As both a pastor and a scholar, Jung brings years of thinking about the church’s role in addressing poverty and inequality. His experience in parish ministry and with concrete service organizations makes the book practical and especially beneficial for congregational use. The book’s seven short chapters could be easily adapted to, for example, a Lenten book read or short book study.
Review of Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
June 2010: Voluntary Poverty in the Economy of the Spirit (Volume 10 Issue 6)
[1] As the director of hunger education for ELCA World Hunger and a student of the Bible, I am always looking for books and resources that blend good history and theology with contemporary application. Reta Halteman Finger’s 2007 book, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts, in many ways succeeds in […]