Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Or: "The Church for These Times?"

A prominent church in midtown has just put up slick banners featuring worried traders and other financial industry workers beneath the headline, "The Church for These Times."

Leaving aside the presumption that this particular church is "The" church while others apparently not for these times, and also leaving aside the possibility that the parish is capitalizing on Wall Street's lack of capital, we may ask: what times was the Church not for? Surely if Christ is God's revelation to the world, then there is no time when he will not speak to the material and spiritual needs of human beings?

As it happens, of course, Jesus said quite a lot about money and the soul. So the banner is not only valid advertising; it can be left up until Judgment Day. --J. Douglas Ousley

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

and we should be saying something about spirituality and money, the last years have reminded me of Jesus in the temple with the money lenders.....we forget that all of God's children don't have money to spend on condos and Gucci and the frivolous things in life;

I am hopeful that we will return to balance and equality and law enforcement!

Anonymous said...

Gee I think if we had had a little more church of any kind we might not be in this fix.