There is a church that recently added an addition to their building which cost more than $20 million. A newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago revealing that one in five people in its city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers. It's a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity; it's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest; it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate, and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from. It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly panes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.
218 pages, Hardcover