David Duncombe: Fasting for Jubilee on Capitol Hill

Published: August 7, 2007, 11:14 am

Tags: debt

From September 6 - October 15, individuals and congregations will commit to fasting for a day or more in order to call for debt cancellation for desperately poor nations, joining Jubilee USA in supporting the Jubilee Act, H.R. 2634. (See Sojourners' September-October issue for coverage of the debt crisis.) Rev. David Duncombe will be fasting, praying, and lobbying for all six weeks of the Jubilee USA fast. In 1999 and again in 2000, he engaged in 45-day lobbying fasts, part of an effort that helped to bring about Congress' authorization of $435 million to forgive some debts owed to the United States. Here, Duncombe reflects on what it's like to fast for justice while offering a prophetic and pastoral voice on Capitol Hill. A typical day in the sixth week of my water-only fast would find me hobbling down the corridor of the House office building, leaning into my walker and headed for the office of a Republican member of the Financial Services Committee. Today I had with me a

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