Over the holidays we were talking about all kinds of fun stuff, like Christmas memories, favorite food, best presents, and ... American national debt. Yes, I am a geek. But I made the comment that most Americans have no concept of how deep the well of debt goes in the American economy. This morning Billy Kenney sent me the following article which I share with you all here:
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.