an excerpt from an article in my mother's new magazine subscription i gave her for her birthday. just the kind of sociological/political/religious themes i can appreciate:

SO WHY THE deafening silence from the pulpit when the bankruptcy laws were being altered in Congress? The lack of forgiveness to debtors is surely as big a moral crisis as we have had to face in public life this year. The Bible is unambiguous that making profit off the debt of others is reprehensible. Sacred scripture also condemns using interest on debt to drive people into poverty. The Hebrew scripture even calls for the cancellation of all debt in a periodic "Jubilee year" because God is the ultimate owner of all that we own.