Poverty and Money: Readings, Prayers and Other Liturgical Resources

A large collection of resources on poverty, homelessness and sharing what we have, taken from various Wild Goose books.

Also see Iona Abbey Music Book and Love and Anger, available separately

Contents:

Readings

• The spirituality of economics, by Kathy Galloway
• 'I am because you are', by Margaret Legum
• Bread of life, by George MacLeod
• The most value, by Margaret Legum
• True or false? by John Davies
• One old woman (Sunday morning in Warsaw), by Margaret Legum
• An offense to God, by John Harvey
• A seedbed of faith and hope, by Carolyn Smyth
• Flowing from Christian commitment, by Ian M Fraser
• Poverty is neither inevitable nor acceptable, by Molly Harvey
• Bread not bombs, by Molly Harvey
• Neither cold nor hot, by Peter Millar
• Living stones, by Erik Cramb
• Crushed in Camlachie, by Erik Cramb
• Listening to the poor, by Peter Millar
• Shanti's journey, by Peter Millar
• A global vision, by Peter Millar
• The body was put in a plastic bag, by Ian M. Fraser
• The cost of solidarity, by Ian M. Fraser
• Shared by all, by Ian M Fraser
• Fair play! by Rosemary Power
• Beans and toast, by Ian M. Fraser
• Testing by human oppression, by Ian M. Fraser
• Kumari's eviction, by Peter Millar
• The rainbow man, by Neil Paynter
• Water and light, by Ian M. Fraser
• Reclaiming one's inheritance, by Ian M. Fraser
• Maggie, by Neil Paynter
• The model and the sparrow, by Erik Cramb
• Poverty: why bother? by Erik Cramb
• Nothing blurred there either! by Erik Cramb
• Kingdom values, by Erik Cramb
• Incredible risks, by Peter Millar
• We must call them to account, by Margaret Legum

Prayers

• Day in, day out, by Ruth Burgess
• Our community, by Cedarwood Women's Writing Group
• Bought back from the pawnshop of death, by George MacLeod
• On the side of justice, by Kathy Galloway
• Liberator Christ, by Brian Woodcock
• Prayer, by George MacLeod
• You humble me before the poor, by Ian M Fraser

Liturgical resources

• We are so privileged, by Ian M. Fraser
• Break the chains of debt
• Already here, by Neil Paynter
• Jesus said, by Neil Paynter
• The outsiders, by Jan Sutch Pickard
• Affirmation
• Closing responses
• Magnificat now, by Joy Mead
• Some facts, by Neil Paynter
• Remember me, by Kathy Galloway
• Christ of Scotland, by Kathy Galloway
• This year I'm not coming
• Why we're here, by Jan Sutch Pickard
• The light of the world is shining, by Rachel McCann
• Thembi's house, by Jan Sutch Pickard
• A map of bread, by Kathy Galloway
• Aliah bakes bread, by Jan Sutch Pickard
• Sightings, by Kathy Galloway
• On accounting for the use of money, by Reinhild Traitler
• As you have been fed, by Kate Mcllhagga
• Cursing the 'money boys': an act of witness for economic justice, by Ron Ferguson