Community as Groups of Individuals

I spied this article,  and the closing point about community seems to have a hint of individualism embedded in it,  for all its talk of the “community”.  I don’t think the author realizes it,  and perhaps a couple of years ago,  I wouldn’t have noticed it myself,  but look: A community is a living and breathing organism that changes with Continue Reading

poserorprophet: The Church and Capitalism: Part I.2

Dan has been sharing with us a paper he is doing.  He is contrasting Christianity with neoclassicism,  our present day leading form of capitalism. Capitalism, however, is based upon the assumption of scarcity. It assumes a world where there is not enough for everybody. Consequently, rather than manifesting abundance, what capitalism produces is a profusion of commodities that functions as Continue Reading