One cannot speak of a community developing a local theology without its being filled with the Spirit and working under the power of the gospel. Unless the community accepts the free gift of God's grace, unless that community gathers for its
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“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for whose further enrichment the economy is understood (by them) to exist. For the purpose of their further enrichment, these plutocrats and the great corporations that serve them have controlled the economy by the purchase of political power. The purchased governments do not act in the interest of the governed and their country; they act instead as agents for the corporations.”
― What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
― What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
“Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.”
― What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
― What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
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