The big question in my mind is whether people of faith and goodwill will rise up and successfully tame capitalism-gone-wild, or whether it will prove untamable and drive off the cliff of collapse.

via Five Good Answers with Author, Speaker, and Activist Brian D. McLaren : Matt Litton.

This seems to be my two overarching concerns right now (and Brian also wrote another book, on interfaith dialogue,  which came out at a time when I had begun looking deeply into the Islamaphobia running rampant in our country).  So it seems that Brian is often writing and speaking on things that I had come to believe were really important,  often very close to the same time.  He and I are both the same age,  I just discovered,  so perhaps therein is something very non-coincidental about it;  in addition to the fact that “capitalism gone wild” has come to the fore since the 2007-8 economic  recession and the 2010 boomerang of politics that thrust the GOP into their role as filibustering and blocking efforts to stop the inequality bleeding.

As a reader of about 4-5 of his books,  and reader of articles and “receiver” of many talks given by Brian over the years,  and one interview of which I am very proud (at The Wild Goose Festival in 2012,  when I asked him to talk about his thoughts on the Occupy movement),  I have also noticed how keenly concerned Brian is about the Climate Crisis (and so I was looking up some of the articles and book coverage he has given eco-theology over the years). I hope he’ll maybe write one about the church’s call to be a voice for this “stewardship of creation”,  as he has talked about many times.  It fits right in with the theme of deep inter-relatedness we have with one another and with our larger eco-system that sustains us.  For me,  it has become another glaring example of the effects of what Brian refers to as “theo-capitalism” that has run rough-shod over not only our economy,  but has proven to be unsustainable for the physical world.