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Poverty and Injustice

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Erin Grimm

Poverty is the root of injustice. Why can’t we see this? It contributes to lack of education, lack of healthy food, lack of ability to raise children holistically. And wealth contributes to malformation of wealthy children’s educational spaces, where the poor are bracketed off and not seen, abundance of the wrong kind of food, and also a lack of ability to raise children holistically because health requires restoration.

I am preparing an essay that will be for the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint about how poverty heightens the likelihood that a child will be subjected to seclusion and restraint, culminating in the school to prison pipeline.

About Christian Minus Christianity

Christian Minus Christianity is a budding community created to challenge imperialism, nationalism, and racism in many forms of US-American Christianity. It is a work of contextual theology created from the perspective of a white Christian of conscience.

Palestinian theologian Dr. Yousef Kamal AlKhouri, academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, wrote about this project:

“I do think it’s important to dismantle imperial Christianity in a form, and for the reign of God to liberate the oppressed and God’s entire creation from systems of supremacy, exploitation, and destruction. I also believe that every theologian and Christian are doing theology from their own context, wherever they are. All theologies are contextual.”