I'm Warren Smith, and today on listening in, we remember Ron Sider, who died last week at the age of 82.

He wrote the influential book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, and he was a guest on this program in 2016.

We listened back on that conversation today.

One part of what government should do would be to have public policies that effectively

decentralize the economy, effectively especially empower the poorer members of society,

so they've got the resources, knowledge, education,

and so on, to earn their own way and be dignified members of the community.

Ron Sider's 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, elevated him to a national

and international stage. It's challenging call for Christians to both declare a biblical gospel and demonstrate

compassionate care for the poor as part of the gospel message resonated with a generation

of young evangelicals.

Cider went on to form evangelicals for social action,

which championed social causes and he continued to write more than 30 books over the course

of his lifetime. And while some Christians who heard the call for social action have moved on

anti-biblical views on abortion and marriage,

Cider himself remained steadfast to the very end, writing and speaking frequently for the pro-life

position. And that's how we came to have this conversation that you're about to hear.

Sider was in Washington, D.C. in 2016 to participate in the March for Life, and he spoke at a related event hosted by Evangelicals for Life.

We began our conversation by talking about the life issue and why that issue remained important to him over the years.

Ron Sider, you and I are here today at the Evangelicals for Life conference. You spoke this

morning. What did you tell the group? Well, I said first of all that I didn't always oppose abortion, but about 45 years ago, I rethought my position.

And for decades now, I've believed that we should act on the assumption that from a moment of conception, we're dealing with human beings and we should respect the sanctity of human life there.

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