Economic Recovery

I red this on the Sojourners Blog recently. Its a quote from my friend, Brian McLaren, taken from a larger article on "Mobilization", an initiative to end poverty. He's looking at the illness in the US economy. Take a read ...

So our economy is in the emergency room, and the doctors are doing triage but they still haven’t reached a full diagnosis of the disease — or better said, the complex of diseases — with which our economy is afflicted. We, as people of faith in the God who proclaims good news to the poor, have every reason to suspect that a key element in our as-yet undiagnosed economic disorder is a failure to properly care for the poor.

We, people who believe in the God who identifies with the least of these, have every reason to believe that if you want to check the health of the economy, you begin by checking the blood pressure of the poor. If you want to treat our economic illness, you begin with those most weakened by poverty. If you want to measure improving health, you check the vital signs of the poor.

I'm with Brian, and a host of people from our generation and those who have gone before us. That is, the way we respond to the "least of these" in our world, is an accurate barometer on the health of our economy and our culture.

What say ye?