I'm a Consumer Christian

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself it is not hungry. {Simone Weil}



Give us this day our daily bread. {Jesus}





Much ink has been spilt (with good cause) resisting the soul-numbing prevalence of hyper-individualism, where we view God - and then in turn people and neighborhoods and natural resources - merely as raw material for the pursuit of our isolated whims. The gospel tells me that my comfort and the satisfact...