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"I'm excited for this book to come out in a few weeks! Elizabeth Berget lives in South Minneapolis, and wrote for Christianity today about what it was like here while ICE was terrorizing our neighbors:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/202..." — Apr 13, 2026 05:02AM
"I'm excited for this book to come out in a few weeks! Elizabeth Berget lives in South Minneapolis, and wrote for Christianity today about what it was like here while ICE was terrorizing our neighbors:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/202..." — Apr 13, 2026 05:02AM
“When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.”
― The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
― The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Thus, if the low grade of intelligence, virtue, and civilization of the African in America, disqualified him for being his own guardian, and if his own true welfare, and that of the community, would be plainly marred by this freedom; then the law decided correctly that the African here has no natural right to his self-control, as to his own labour and locomotion.”
― Systematic Theology
― Systematic Theology
“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible for a black man to teach and rule white Christians to edification.”
― Discussions - Vol 2: Evangelical
― Discussions - Vol 2: Evangelical
“Conflating prosperity with providence and opting for acquisitiveness as the lesser of two evils until greed was rechristened as benign self-interest, modern Christians have in effect been engaged in a centuries-long attempt to prove Jesus wrong. “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” Yes we can. Or so most participants in world history’s most insatiably consumerist society, the United States, continue implicitly to claim through their actions, considering the number of self-identified American Christians in the early twenty-first century who seem bent on acquiring ever more and better stuff, including those who espouse the “prosperity Gospel” within American religious hyperpluralism.190 Tocqueville’s summary description of Americans in the early 1830s has proven a prophetic understatement: “people want to do as well as possible in this world without giving up their chances in the next.”
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
― The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
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