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Wealth and Poverty in Christianity is a personal research project exploring Christianity's complex (and often contradictory) relationship with money. From the Gospel of Luke’s dream of a reversal of rich and poor, to Paul’s fury at the way the wealthy separated themselves out from the hungry at the Lord’s Supper, to Evagrius Ponticus’ battles with what he described as the demon Love of Money, to Basil of Cesarea’s railing against predatory lending, to the anonymous Pelagian monk’s meditation on what constitutes “enough” -- this blog explores major moments and figures in Christianity's developing thought on wealth and poverty from the first to the fifth centuries. 

My first book The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today is available here. I am currently researching a second book which explores ways money is discussed in the Gospels depictions of Jesus' last week. 

Miguel Escobar is the director of strategy and operations at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS). Previously, he served as managing program director for leadership, communications, and external affairs at the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF). He is also in the ordination process in the Diocese of Long Island.  He earned a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 2007 and served as communications assistant to then-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori from 2007-2010. Miguel serves on the board of Episcopal Relief & Development and Friends of Forward Movement. He grew up in Texas and attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio where he studied the Roman Catholic social justice tradition, Latin American liberation theologies, and minored in Spanish. 

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