{"id":24634,"date":"2011-10-26T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=24634"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:16:20","slug":"a-devotion-for-wall-street-claiborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/10\/26\/a-devotion-for-wall-street-claiborne\/","title":{"rendered":"A devotion for Wall Street [Claiborne]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A devotion for Wall Street<\/strong><\/a> — from\u00a0www.redletterchristians.org (a blog by Tony Campolo & friends) by Shane Claiborne; with a special thanks going out to Mr. David Goodrich for posting a URL to this item via LinkedIn<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

A reporter recently asked me, \u201cAs a Christian leader, does your faith have anything to say about Wall Street?\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cHow much time do you have?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Christian message has a lot to say to Wall Street.<\/p>\n

Theologian Karl Barth said, \u201cWe have to read the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper in the other.\u201d\u00a0 For too long we Christians have used our faith as a ticket out of this world rather than fuel to engage it.<\/p>\n

In his parables, Jesus wasn\u2019t offering pie-in-the-sky theology\u2026 he was talking about the real stuff of earth.\u00a0 He talks about wages, debt, widows and orphans, unjust business owners and bad politicians. In fact Woody Guthrie breaks it all down in his song \u201cJesus Christ\u201d.\u00a0 The song ends with Woody singing, \u201cThis song was written in New York City\u2026 If Jesus were to preach what he preached in Galilee, they would lay him in his grave again.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

From the Start here page at RLC.org:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The goal of Red Letter Christians is simple: To take Jesus seriously by endeavoring to live out His radical, counter-cultural teachings as set forth in Scripture, and especially embracing the lifestyle prescribed in the Sermon on the Mount.<\/p>\n

Ironically, it was a secular Jewish country-and-western disc jockey in Nashville, Tennessee who first suggested that title. During a radio interview with my friend Jim Wallis, that deejay declared, \u201cYou\u2019re one of those Red-Letter Christians \u2013 you know, the ones who are really into all those New Testament verses that are in red letters!\u201d When Jim said, \u201cThat\u2019s right!\u201d he answered for all of us. By calling ourselves Red Letter Christians, we refer to the fact that in many Bibles the words of Jesus are printed in red. What we are asserting, therefore, is that we have committed ourselves first and foremost to doing what Jesus said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A devotion for Wall Street — from\u00a0www.redletterchristians.org (a blog by Tony Campolo & friends) by Shane Claiborne; with a special thanks going out to Mr. David Goodrich for posting a URL to this item via LinkedIn Excerpt: A reporter recently asked me, \u201cAs a Christian leader, does your faith have anything to say about Wall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,403,425,95,500,248,480],"tags":[626,213,763,772,96,798,696,792],"class_list":["post-24634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-business-world","category-ethics","category-faith","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-society","tag-corporate-business-world","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-global","tag-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","tag-relationships","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24642,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions\/24642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}