{"id":414,"date":"2011-04-02T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T00:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-04-02T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T00:32:37","slug":"fasting-because-budgets-are-moral-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Fasting Because Budgets are Moral Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1100303-wwjc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-415\" title=\"1100303-wwjc\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1100303-wwjc-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The practice of fasting is testament-honored but not much practiced these days, as any trip to the shopping center or the movie snack bar will reveal. \u00a0But starting this week, I along with more than 20, 000 Americans will be partial fasting for economic justice. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jim-wallis\/spiritual-escalation-in-r_b_840286.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Wallis and a number of other clergy<\/a> have announced a fast, and I have decided to join, because, like them, I believe that budgets are moral documents and that advocating cutbacks in basic aid to the poor\u2013such as Food Stamps\u2013is moral bankruptcy. \u00a0Move-On, whose leadership is also joining, announced its participation with these lines from Isaiah:<\/p>\n<p>Is this not the fast that I choose:<\/p>\n<p>to loose the bonds of injustice,<\/p>\n<p>to undo the thongs of the yoke,<\/p>\n<p>to let the oppressed go free,<\/p>\n<p>and to break every yoke. \u00a0(58:6)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/sojo\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=387\" target=\"_blank\">You can join too<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of fasting is testament-honored but not much practiced these days, as any trip to the shopping center or the movie snack bar will reveal. \u00a0But starting this week, I along with more than 20, 000 Americans will be partial fasting for economic justice. \u00a0Jim Wallis and a number of other clergy have announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[28,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}