By Natalie Williams2024-07-26T12:36:00
Natalie Williams on how your weekly shop could look different if you applied the Old Testament principle of gleaning
In the Old Testament, care for those who were struggling economically was central to how the people of God were to flourish and be set apart from other people groups.
One law concerned gleaning. As crops were gathered up, some would fall by the wayside. Farmers might be tempted to go back and pick up as much as possible, but God said not to (Leviticus 19:9-10). Instead, anything that wasn’t gathered up the first time was to be left for widows, orphans, foreigners and those in poverty.
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After the House of Commons voted to decriminalise abortion and legalise assisted dying in the same week, campaigners are warning that decisions on life and death issues are being taken without proper scrutiny
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Some young people in England are living in an “almost-Dickensian level of poverty” according to the latest report from the children’s commissioner. It should break our hearts, just as it breaks God’s, says Natalie Williams
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Church leaders have been given great power by God. They must use it responsibly and for the good of the whole body, says Lucy Peppiatt
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When his son was born in the bathroom, Joshua Luke Smith encountered the awe-filled reality of birth — and discovered the spiritual power of holy helplessness
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