{"id":26500,"date":"2026-02-06T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=26500"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:28:09","slug":"sabbath-and-jubilee-economics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=26500","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath and Jubilee Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jewel - Hands (lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pri3K2Xlr9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jubilee Action on Wall Street<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 6, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What does love require of us, and how can we provoke that spirit of Jubilee that God was up to?<\/strong><br>\u2014Shane Claiborne,\u00a0<em>The Francis Factor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>At CAC\u2019s 2015 conference&nbsp;<\/em>The Francis Factor,&nbsp;<em>activist Shane Claiborne told a story about how his community\u2019s study of Jubilee and their unexpected receipt of $10,000 in a legal settlement led to a creative action on Wall Street<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thought, \u201cWow, this money isn\u2019t just for our nonprofit. This should go to folks on the street, because we were literally fighting anti-homeless legislation.\u201d We said, \u201cLet\u2019s use that money\u2026. Let\u2019s have a Jubilee party and let\u2019s do it on Wall Street.\u201d We invited a bunch of homeless folks from all over New York, many of them friends, and we said, \u201cHey, we\u2019re going to go to Wall Street and we\u2019re going to give away the money that we won in a lawsuit. We need to be peaceful, but it\u2019s going to be beautiful.\u201d We didn\u2019t want it to be too crazy, so we broke it up in small change\u2026. We had hundreds of us that had it divvied up everywhere. We had people on bikes and people with backpacks, people with coffee mugs that were filled with money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we got to Wall Street, you could see folks from the street trickling in wondering, \u201cIs this really happening?\u201d The police are all already there \u2026 and they\u2019re insisting, \u201cThis is not happening. If anyone\u2019s here for this money distribution, it\u2019s not happening.\u201d What they didn\u2019t know is we were already there\u2026. As soon as the bell was about to drop on Wall Street, \u2026 we announced, <strong>\u201cWe believe another world is possible, another world where everybody has what they need and there\u2019s not this deep inequity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We preached it that morning and then Sister Margaret [a Catholic sister] announced the Jubilee, blew the ram\u2019s horn, and money started pouring out everywhere. I mean, we had people on the balconies with paper money. They start pouring it out\u2026. It was beautiful. They\u2019re singing. This one \u2026 street sweeper, he\u2019s got his dustpan filled with money. He\u2019s like, \u201cIt is a good day at work. Hallelujah!\u201d Another guy grabs some money off the street and he said, \u201cNow I can get the prescription I needed. Thank you.\u201d We even had folks from inside Wall Street that heard about what was happening. They said, \u201cWe heard that there\u2019s more fun happening out here, so we\u2019re here.\u201d One guy just said, \u201cI want to start getting bagels and giving them out,\u201d and he did. It was contagious\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I think that in the end, our goal is not to create enemies but is actually to courageously proclaim the vision of God that is so big that everyone is welcome. B<\/strong>ut it also means, as Desmond Tutu says, that <strong>those who have been oppressed are free from oppression, and those who have done the oppressing are free from being the oppressor, that everyone is set free. [1] That\u2019s the invitation for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 On Friday John Chaffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cLove itself is a kind of knowing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Gregory_I\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gregory the Great, 6th Century Bishop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The whole of Christian tradition highlights Love as the main virtue and as a description of what God is. <\/strong>\u00a0That said, it is fascinating how the tradition also holds that Love is a form of epistemology,<strong> it is a way of learning and therefore of knowing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is one thing for me to read a book about being married; it is another thing entirely to be taught by the school of love what marriage is supposed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I can read 400 biographies about a person, but I could learn so much more about a person if I were to<\/strong> <strong>love them and be loved by them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all these reasons and more, as Gregory the Great teaches us, Love is a kind of knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cGod leads into the dark night those whom He desires to purify from all these imperfections so that He may bring them farther onward.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_of_the_Cross\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>John of the Cross, Spanish Monk &amp; Reformer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When I first read the Dark Night of the Soul, it did not make sense to me. \u00a0Then, after enormous heartbreak and disillusionment with the institutional church, the Dark Night of the Soul made the most sense of all the approaches of Christian spirituality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, I have met people at various stages of the Dark Night of the Soul. &nbsp;Many of them felt a sense of relief to know that their path had been walked before by others, and that rather than being lost, they are on the same old journey of being found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that one of the reasons the Dark Night of the Soul can feel so painful is that it is almost never a chosen path. &nbsp;It is a path forced upon us, or one that chooses us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the wisdom of John of the Cross, the Dark Night of the Soul is God stripping away every single crutch, support, or idol that gets in the way of the Beloved Soul and God&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that even includes the experience of faith itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>God allows us to experience a type of &#8220;atheism&#8221; or &#8220;lack of faith&#8221; in order to teach us that our experience of faith is not the thing we should be after.<\/strong> <strong>\u00a0That is very much like being in love with the feeling of being in love without loving the Beloved right in front of us!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is the final human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know God.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Aquinas\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Monk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aquinas wrote the most impressive systematic theology in Church history. &nbsp;It has towered rather supremely over other works of theology. &nbsp;It is known as the Summa Theologiae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even still&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite writing such an impressive tome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aquinas still maintained the myste<\/strong>ry that God is something beyond our comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I find that absolutely lovely.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThat which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/peterrollins.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pete Rollins, Irish Philosopher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a problem, a predicament, a difficulty that we must overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is utterly beyond human language, symbols, ceremonies, and concepts. &nbsp;Every potential thought we might have about God is immediately infinitely less than the reality of what God actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can&#8217;t not say something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is such a profound mystery that encompasses and penetrates everything we say or do to such a degree that we still have to say something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This paradox could make some people despair, while others might bend the knee before the mystery.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI pray God rid me of God.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Chrysostom\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meister Eckhart, 14th Century German Preacher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years ago, I preached a Good Friday service where the main point of the sermon was this quote from Eckhart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some level, we need the help of God to rid us of every smaller, limited, misguided, idolatrous view of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is probably true for each of us that at the end of our ropes, there is an understanding of God that we would rather die than give up. <\/strong>\u00a0The strange reality is that that view of God is far less than what God actually is, and therefore,<strong> we need God&#8217;s help to &#8220;cleanse our palate&#8221; or &#8220;clean the slate&#8221; and to help us come to God with as few hindrances as possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the surface, this quote sounds like a preacher requesting to become an atheist. &nbsp;On a deeper level, it is a prayer of profound insight and devotion to this mystery we all call &#8220;God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funny enough, I did not preach a Good Friday service at that church again. &nbsp;Oh well. &nbsp;I still think it was a sermon that Meister Eckhart would have approved of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilee Action on Wall Street Friday, February 6, 2026 What does love require of us, and how can we provoke that spirit of Jubilee that God was up to?\u2014Shane Claiborne,\u00a0The Francis Factor At CAC\u2019s 2015 conference&nbsp;The Francis Factor,&nbsp;activist Shane Claiborne told a story about how his community\u2019s study of Jubilee and their unexpected receipt of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26504,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions\/26504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}