text: Agree. Sr. Schenk rightly invokes the often overlooked socio-economic context of Jesus's ministry in the Galilean countryside, a ministry mainly addressed to Jewish peasants crushed by debt:
  
  <<Roman economic practices, especially in Galilee, were responsible for the systematic eviction of agrarian families from their ancestral lands. Israelites paid a threefold tax: to the local Herodian rulers, to Rome and to the Temple. This regressive system benefited the elite at the expense of peasant farmers and poor artisans whose labor kept the empire's wealthy fed and clothed.>>
  
  It's also true the gospel agitates against the human drive for domination. I had never heard of Walter Wink and am grateful for the introduction. 
  
  Thanks for an excellent article, Sister!