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Jenn's avatar

This is so good. I also like the solemn punning. A lot.

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Kevin Nye's avatar

My most earnest puns to date

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Jenn's avatar

It's hard to imagine puns more earnest.

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Lisa's avatar

So good. My favorite part of what you wrote: "Jesus is not disinterested in the mechanics that make some rich and others poor. His whole ministry critiques the powerful and uplifts the lowly. We do this passage, and our entire theological imaginations, a great injustice to not fundamentally see it as a story about money, and whose offering is worthy before God. Jesus sees simultaneously the beauty of her gift while also mourning and raging at the injustice that leaves her with only two mites to give.". Agree that too often we Christians tend to gloss over poverty. I love that you remind us that Jesus sees ecomomic inequality and oppression for the injustice that it is.

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Kevin Nye's avatar

Thank you!!!

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I_be_Gretchen's avatar

Beautiful written. I am reminded how context is king. And I love that you tie this into how it's those without a lot of means that often are the most generous with what they have.

During the pandemic a friend saw the amount of need and how so often it was small amounts of money. He started using Facebook to crowd source funds to help people in the amounts of 5 and 10 dollars. He did this while not having a job himself. It's the effect story you're telling here.

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Kevin Nye's avatar

thanks for sharing this story! it's consistently true that the capacity for compassion run deeper among those who have known struggle themselves.

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Zeru Fitsum's avatar

Kevin! You went crazy on this! Thank you 🙏🏾

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Kevin Nye's avatar

The only way I know how to go 😂

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