Throughout the gospels, Jesus often mingled with we might call “little people”—social misfits like lepers, the chronically ill, religious outsiders, tax-collectors and prostitutes, and especially children. Our world is also filled with “little people”: angry adolescents, “unwanted” babies, “old folks” crammed into nursing homes, the mentally ill (and those who love them), moral “failures,” immigrants, and the nearly invisible substrata known as the poor, or what one author calls “the bottom billion.Throughout the gospels, Jesus often mingled with we might call “little people”—social misfits like lepers, the chronically ill, religious outsiders, tax-collectors and prostitutes, and especially children. Our world is also filled with “little people”: angry adolescents, “unwanted” babies, “old folks” crammed into nursing homes, the mentally ill (and those who love them), ...Continue Reading
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