Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!
What with Ukraine, Mar-a-Lago, Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!)…
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Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading
European negotiations over the Greek debt crisis have taken a series of bewildering turns in…
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The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads
Graduation time—and the living ain’t easy.
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The Reagan Era, Still Going
The Reagan era was supposed to have ended in November 2008—killed off by 30 years of flat wages and capitulation to Wall Street leading to a colossal financial crash. But today the Reagan era is enduring in stranger forms than ever.
Read MoreOccupy the Greek Orthodox Church
With an economy in freefall, the Greek PM is broaching the subject of making the Church pay its share.
Read MoreNewt Gingrich’s Tiffany’s Problem: Debt Is Unbiblical
Add debt to his multitude of sins.
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A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion
Just about all of the issues that we religious folk insist we really care about—issues like world poverty and hunger, resource wars and environmental degradation, human trafficking, widening domestic inequality, shrinking access to quality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression.
Read MoreWelcome to the “Career College” Scam
The latest way to cheat both the poor and the taxpayer…
Read MoreDebt Peonage Update: Making Home Unaffordable
Mortgage companies, the New York Times reports, make money by keeping people in delinquency. In this way, the minorities who were targeted for subprime loans in the first place are being exploited a second time.
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I Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation
When we take the approach that “all are sinners,” we confuse big-time criminality with small-time folly. This moral obfuscation allows the far greater misfeasance of corporate creditors to get airbrushed out of the picture.
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