By David Alan Black on 09/28/2010
We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s…When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I’m finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the ‘American Way’…
Posted in Features, Life In The Spirit, Society and Culture | Tagged american dream, American Empire, christian faith, Christianity, Christianity and culture, Consumerism, Dave Black, David Alan Black, discipleship, Jesus, Justice, kingdom of GOD, missional living, whole-life discipleship |
By Jason Fowler on 09/28/2010
“We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s no real freedom…”
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Money & Economics, Society and Culture | Tagged book exerpt, christian community, Christianity and culture, Community and Ecclesia, corporations, corporatism, culture, Douglas Rushkoff, economics, economy, history, industrial revolution, Intentional Living, Life Inc., localism, mental slavery, prophetic voices, Springs of Contemplation, Theology, Thomas Merton, work |
