The Business of the Lesser Gods

This business of living out a spiritually formed life in The Market might come with its own price. It’s always been that way.

In the Christian book of the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul visited Ephesus and taught of “the Way.” More than a few Ephesian citizens adopted Paul’s teaching and began to burn their books of magic. (Has anything riled folks up quite as much as a good book burning?) This is where the rub set in. The Way threatened the Ephesian economy–The Market–which was fueled in no...