Humans tend to gather around people who are like themselves. Which is why Zack’s post is relevant. The church is homogeneous. We have white churches and black churches and rich churches and poor churches and any other kind of church in between. These churches don’t blend either. I am a white, well educated, wealthy person and honestly my church is a white, well educated, wealthy church.

I think it’s the actual differences that make it difficult to cross boundaries and the burden should be carried by both sides. To break homogeneity the poor should be responsible for the rich and the rich responsible for the poor, otherwise we are not equal. I see neither happening.

Your analysis is just out of touch with reality. But this is a very old problem. We in the middle class have always been completely blind to what’s going with our neighbors just a few miles away, or even just a few doors down.

There just aren’t enough jobs for everyone. That’s a fact. And if you fall into a category such as refugee who doesn’t speak enlgish, or, say, ex-convict who served his time, then you are going to be one of the people who can’t get a job.

We have helped a lot of people find jobs. Our help has made a difference in those cases. But we’re just making it so that someone else, who doesn’t have a middle class advocate, can’t get that job.

In this case, though, there’s just no way this woman is going to get hired anywhere.

And anyways, why do we want widows like this to go out and work, leaving their kids at an expensive day care center with people who won’t love them as much as their mom? That’s just crazy.

As far as charities that simply provide support — there are some, but not enough. And I actually don’t know of any that will just support someone flat out.

I must agree on the prior statement about the isolation of the Christian populace away from others. While it would be false to say that this is the majority, there are a good number of congregations that seem perfectly fine with being isolated, inactive societies. Being a Christian myself, I find this near repulsive.

Again, I can’t do much in terms of financial assistance due to my own lack of income. My location also doesn’t allow me to directly assist her. The only way I could think of helping is through communication, pen pal sort of ordeal (something I’m currently engaged in with another individual). That’s about all I can offer.

Those who fancy this new breed of social gospel is a winning evangelical strategy are kidding themselves. The Catholic blend, “Liberation Theology”, has driven Latin Americans into the evangelical camp faster than any clerical scandal could. Nowhere else is the Catholic flock shrinking faster. A similar situation may be observed with the “mainline churches” in the United States.

Anyways this reminds me of the guy that’s been outdoing Glenn Beck since before Glenn Beck started: Alex Jones. He took the Joker thing to the extreme. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIWSI2tkDM

I think part of the secret is discovering how the upper class NEEDS the lower class. Not only do the outcasts and the poor have something to offer but it’s something of necessity. It will probably be very humbling for the church.