About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of poverty and scarcity in the context of faith and economics.

Scarcity is not just an economics term, it is a daily pressure that shapes housing, wages, debt, and the quiet fear of not having enough. We start with a simple story about buying a home after the 2008 collapse and watching the same neighborhood become nearly impossible for new buyers. That shift opens the door to Deuteronomy 15, where God speaks with surprising realism: “there will never cease to be poor in the land.” Poverty is not praised, but it is treated as inevitable in a fallen world,...

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