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Be sure to balance pastoral care of others with pastoral self-care. Come away and rest awhile.

When we read the Bible from beginning to end, we see that confronting economic injustice is an important task of our faith. If the modern church wants to proclaim good news to people whose lives are being squeezed by an economy so devoid of it, then perhaps it is time for us to recover the courage of our own tradition and dare to reimagine an economy that works for all God’s people.

If we are to heed Jesus’s calling to be peacemakers, our response to this crisis must be twofold: call on our diplomats to negotiate an immediate end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza and implore our members of Congress to limit — or even end — arms shipments to Israel. 

Each week in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.