By Christine Aroney-Sine Why is it so difficult to make changes we know are good for us? I think one of the reasons is that often we focus more on the symptoms of our problem rather than on the actual disease.
What happens when faith is co-opted for power? We are far from the first Christians to find ourselves forced to address this question. In A People’s History of Christianity, historian Diana Butler Bass traces 2,000 years of push and pull between one version of Christianity that cozies up to power—or seeks to seize it outright—and another version that sides with the people oppressed by this very same power.