In these passionate and wide-ranging essays Obery Hendricks offers a challenging engagement with spirituality, economics, politics, contemporary Christianity, and the abuses committed in its name.
He ends with a stinging rebuke of the religious right\'s idolatrous "patriotism" in a Radical manifesto for those who would practice "the politics of Jesus" in the public sphere..
Among his themes: the gap between the spirituality of the Church and the spirituality of Jesus; the ways in which contemporary versions of gospel music "sensationalize" today\'s churches into social and political irrelevance; how the economic principles and policies espoused by the religious right betray the most basic principles of the same biblical tradition they claim to hold dear; the domestication of Martin Luther King\'s message to foster a political complacency that dishonors King\'s sacrifices.
In these passionate and wide-ranging essays Obery Hendricks offers a challenging engagement with spirituality, economics, politics, contemporary Christianity, and the abuses committed in its name
