The Poor You Will Always Have Among You

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,...

People in this episode

Host: St John the Beloved

Topics covered

• poverty
• housing
• economics
• Christianity
• faith
• scarcity

Keywords

• poverty
• scarcity
• housing market
• Deuteronomy
• Christianity
• 2008 financial crisis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Poor You Will Always Have Among You, Deuteronomy 15

Places: 2008

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