If I were to make a list of my top ten favorite blogs to read, it would certainly include Blogging Theologically by Aaron Armstrong. One of the first things I saw when I went online after my unexpected long weekend without internet was a Tweet announcing that this blog moved to a new site; I thought it would be a good opportunity to point out this gem.

While it might not have been the first I read, "Selling Ointments and Stealing from Moneybags" was one of his first articles I remember reading. It made me think and has certainly influenced how I think about poverty. I particularly liked the sentence "We pursue justice, not because we can end poverty, but because Jesus will."

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