Life magazine photograph of conscientious objectors during starvation experiment. July 30, 1945. Volume 19, Number 5, p. 43. Credit: Wallace Kirkland/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. Last week, the Brookings Institute released findings from a study estimating that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, children were experiencing food insecurity in almost one in five households of mothers with children age 12 and under. [1] Today’s headline from the New York Times is about how the emergency child hunger program's slow rollout has left millions of children hungry and waiting. [2] Colleagues have told me of how record numbers of people - lines of a thousand one weekend in New York, seven hundred on another - are now showing up at soup kitchens and food banks. It is painfully clear that hunger is on the rise. Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about this hunger and what it says about who we are as a country at this point in time. I’ve also been thinking about how the...
Reflections on the role and history of money in Christianity from the first to the fifth centuries