Religion Dispatches
“I wanted to write a book that looked at what happened when you forced individuals and communities, as well as the environment, to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace. The best way to do this was to go to the nation’s sacrifice zones, those poorest pockets of the country that had been exploited first, to show what happens when you allow the marketplace to rule.”
Read MoreBut what is the question?
Read MoreHuman rights, the role of the Church, and politics aren’t the whole story.
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As largely secular protests to “Occupy Wall Street” advance in fits and starts, capitalism and church negotiate to bring the best of both to bear on the world’s most intractable problems. Except, not quite.
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In Dave Ramsey’s plan, God looks an awful lot like a libertarian with a conservative American protestant streak.
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Christian nationalism finds harmonious home with smaller government anti-tax crusade. What a coincidence.
Read MoreThe old mainline market theology may yet be seen for what it is: a heresy.
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Am I stepping out of bounds by raising the possibility that perhaps a good many Christians who love this country, and who hate this president and blame the government for all that ails them, are religious in ways that are not so readily apparent in their own self-image?
Read MoreThat’s what the American Family Association thinks, anyway.
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