JANUARY TOPIC: ECONOMIC RIGHTS

The idea of economic rights is foreign to many Americans, but the idea of rights to housing, food, employment, and other economic needs are an important part of the global landscape since the Second World War. In an age of increasing economic insecurity for people on the margins, this conversation is as important as ever.

Yet the Bible was written thousands of years ago in largely agrarian economies, so what could it say about a modern economy in the wake of thinkers like Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and John Nash? Does the Bible have anything meaningful to say about an idea as seemingly new as economic rights.

Join us on January 7 in the upstairs meeting room at 11:30 a.m. for a discussion encompassing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ancient Hebrew law, and implications for policy in the modern world for the ability of people to have basic economic security.