“There was a rich man who…” The Occupy Critique, Sabbath Economics and Luke 12-19.

Feb 18-22, 2013 Bartimaeus Institute

This scripture intensive offered a theological response to the Occupy Movement, and a conversation with Cornell West and Tavis Smiley’s recent manifesto on wealth and poverty, The Rich and the Rest of Us (2012). Led by Ched Myers, over 30 people explored selected texts from Luke’s “special section” that appear in the Year C gospel lectionary. We looked at how the third gospel uniquely articulates the problem of social and economic disparity, how Jesus envisions the church as a new society in the shell of the old, and how these texts challenge First World Christians to practice Sabbath Economics. You can see the basic syllabus here.