"independence" Tagged Sermons

Why are people poor? We all know plenty of stories of extreme poverty, especially from writers of the 19th century, writers like Victor Hugo and Les Miserables and Charles Dickens and Oliver. We shudder when we look back at those times, when children could receive the death penalty for stealing a loaf of bread, and parents could spent all the years of their lives in debtor’s prison. However, are we doing so much better today? Are our laws and our…