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b'In his Pentecost 21 sermon on the the widow and the judge, Glynn Cardy examines how justice is rooted in understanding our connection to one another. When one suffers, we all suffer.\\n\\n"It\\u2019s a familiar story. Poverty is not just something that happened in the first century, in Palestine. It is something that happens in every century and in every place. It happens because we don\\u2019t feel intimately connected with each other. If our left arm was freezing or malnourished we would do something about it. We would do something about it because our whole body would be affected by the state of our arm. We don\\u2019t care for those who are cold and hungry because we see them as separate from us, needing to stand on their own two feet. We don\\u2019t see our physical and spiritual health stitched together with that of the whole community." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=322&id=773.'