complicit in the broader project of neoliberalism, which is marked by a social abdication of responsibility to create systems that help the vast majority of citizens achieve some notion of the good life. Instead, neoliberalism turns our attention to individual self-regulation, and notions of personal empowerment, as the pathway to having anything in life. And yet, again, what we teach and preach in churches allows “God” language to do the dirty work of the system, namely, pretending to empower us while ultimately blaming our lack of social options
