The Amos Is Saying Something

In Old Testament spirituality a devout life of following God was summarized in three core practices in fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. In Amos's day the well-off had slowly turned the promised land into class enclaves with uppity neighborhoods and ghettos. The people of God were chopped up by the very same dividing lines that are invisible but have come to divide their city ethnic divisions, socioeconomic divisions, opportunity divisions, status divisions.