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Julie Coulter's avatar

Thank you for sharing Jesus' dream of a debt free world. Recently, small Trinity Moravian Church here in Winston-Salem, NC, bought all the medical debt owed by citizens our county. Dreams fulfilled!

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Pascale Chancey's avatar

I’m currently working through Stephen D. Morrison’s book, All Riches Come From Injustice: the Ant-mammon Witness of the Early Church and It’s Anti-capitalist Relevance, and he draws out your argument, Diana, with such an infectious sense of urgency that it has fanned hope to my almost-extinguished faith. Like your student years ago, I too dream of a debt-free world (and the replacement of capitalism with a collectivist system that truly leads to the thriving of every living creature and the planet) and have intuited for a long while that the good news has radical economic implications that are conveniently ignored to the detriment of the church’s witness. Have you considered the rise of the nones and demographic changes in the church through the lens of people’s relationship with late-stage capitalism? I wonder if the marked generational differences could be in part explained by how the world millennials and younger generations are inheriting is more crippling and terrifying than their elder’s experience at a similar age and that the enmeshment of the church with capitalist practices, like every other institution out there, no longer renders participating in the church as something appealing and life-giving?

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