Lefty Ron Sider Has Died

Ron Sider has died. He was the author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger.

For nearly 50 years, Sider called evangelicals to care about the poor and see poverty as a moral issue. He argued for an expanded understanding of sin to include social structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice, and urged Christians to see how their salvation should compel them to care for their neighbors.

Gary North funded David Chilton’s response, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators, and writes,

Sider understands neither the Bible nor economics when it comes to his conclusions about profits, taxes, foreign aid, and Western guilt for Third World poverty.