Merton and Rushkoff: A Call To Exodus
“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…”
Life Without Money
What Mark and Katharine have in common (and with a growing number of people) is a plunge into the deep end, giving up money and seeing how life turns out…
In Pursuit of Difficult Pleasures
One result of the consumer economy has been a weakening of desire and a diluting of pleasure. This may seem counter-intuitive at first because desire is all around us after all…
Reclaiming Christmas
Isn’t our culture’s commercialization of such a holy event every bit as profane as selling doves and changing money in the courtyards of the temple? I wonder what would happen if Jesus walked into an American mall…with songs proclaiming his birth being piped in to induce purchases.
Jesus is Here to Ruin Your Sweet Little American Dream
If there’s one thing the financial crisis has taught me, it’s that our dreams of wealth and stability are fragile. Jesus wants us to give up on these little dreams we carry and protect…he’s offering an alternative that will not perish or fade away.
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