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A Politics of Grievance in the Vineyard

As we find ourselves in another election season, heading to the polls with decisions to make, I find myself returning again and again to one of Jesus’ parables: the workers in the vineyard (Matt. 20:1–16). It is a telling story for our political moment.

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The Kingdom of Heaven resembles a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed with them to pay a denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. In the middle of the morning he went out and saw others, also unemployed, who were in the square, and said to them, “Go also to my vineyard and I will pay you what is right.” They went out. Again he went out about noon and midnight, and did the same thing. At ev…

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