The Common Good

The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor Press Items
03/23/2000
When Jim Wallis was a theology student in Chicago in the 1960s, he and a few classmates gave themselves an unusual assignment: Count every biblical mention of wealth and poverty. They found several thousand verses in the Old Testament, making it the second-most prominent theme after idolatry. In the New Testament, 1 of every 16 verses focuses on the subject; in the Gospel of Luke, 1 in 7.