Our imaginations are so imprisoned by our economic systems that we find the idea of hating money to be … almost blasphemous! But at this moment, I don’t feel Jesus was exaggerating at all. At thirty, he saw with great clarity what I saw only dimly well into my fifties. Money is useful, even necessary, in our current culture. But it is also dangerous. Locate an evil, and you’ll find the love of money at or near the root of it.
