It is time that we own up to the truth that the economic structure of our communities is a spiritual issue. Our faith communities can no longer rest on the sidelines watching as people organize to take back their communities. We must join in the fight, providing spiritual and other resources. We are long past the moment when we can ask people to join our faith communities and offer their time, talent, and treasures while we watch large corporations and a decaying democracy take those same things away from them without investing into their quality of life. If our faith has anything to offer, if Christianity is going to matter to the up-and-coming generation, it will be because we found ourselves on the sidelines with them fighting for the future of their community.

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