Praying For (Preying On) Recession

NYT: Evangelical Article of Faith: Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds

In Seattle, the Mars Hill Church, one of the fastest-growing evangelical churches in the country, grew to 7,000 members this fall, up 1,000 in a year. At the Life Christian Church in West Orange, N.J., prayer requests have doubled — almost all of them aimed at getting or keeping jobs.

(But I thought your Jesus wanted you to be rich?)

Generic Preacher No. 3,456:

”We need to leverage this moment, because every Christian revival in this country’s history has come off a period of rampant greed and fear. That’s what we’re in today — the time of fear and greed.”

One Age of Leverage ends, another begins. Somewhere, P.T. Barnum is smiling ...