The proposal below is for a debt jubilee for student debt over $4,000 for public higher education, and $20,000 for private schools.
The debt relief is badly needed, yet there is enough left for the borrower to repay to separate the responsible borrowers from the irresponsible ones--so the irresponsible ones will justly remain in debt, which is slavery.
I heartily support this, even though in the past I did things like handwashing our laundry so we could pay off student loans that were well into five figures.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-student-debt-jubilee.html
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
