{"id":24062,"date":"2011-01-18T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_james_jones_on_the_rich_man_the_camel_and_the_eye_of_a_needle\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:28:14","slug":"bishop_james_jones_on_the_rich_man_the_camel_and_the_eye_of_a_needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24062","title":{"rendered":"Bishop James Jones on the Rich Man, the Camel and the Eye of a Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when Jesus compared the rich man with a camel he wasn&#8217;t putting him down. On the contrary he was smiling on him. The comparison&#8217;s a compliment, not an insult.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the question still packed a punch for the rich man. But what it showed was a prosecutor free of envy. And in the current crisis it&#8217;s the skills of the wealth creators that are vital to the nation&#8217;s recovery. According to Jesus the way to get heaven down to earth is for the wealthy to make their money work in the service of others. Which in our current crisis could be through investment or taxation. You see, just like the camel carried other people&#8217;s burdens, nourished others with its milk and gave warmth through the fuel of its dung so God looks to the wealthy to protect the weak. Failure to do so makes heaven on earth an impossibility, not just for the rich but for us all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/programmes\/thought\/documents\/t20110118.shtml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when Jesus compared the rich man with a camel he wasn&#8217;t putting him down. On the contrary he was smiling on him. The comparison&#8217;s a compliment, not an insult. Of course the question still packed a punch for the rich<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24062\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40,74,389,635,582,589,149,168,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}