The Dark Night of the American Economy

Table of Contents

Edi­tors’ Cor­ner
“How Dark an Eco­nomic Night Does It Have To Be?” Chris Iosso
“A Walk on the Eco­nomic Side, Look­ing for Power,” Patrick David Heery

An Invo­ca­tion from the Pres­by­ter­ian Church (USA)
“Liv­ing through Eco­nomic Cri­sis: The Church’s Wit­ness in Trou­bled Times,” Advi­sory Com­mit­tee on Social Wit­ness Policy

Talk­ing Cor­ner
“Loans for Life,” Emily Mor­gan
“New Brunswick: The Plight of the Poor,” Dawan Buie
“All about US,” a poem, Ari­ana Salazar-Newton

Eco­nomic Per­spec­tives
“The Prin­ci­ples of Cap­i­tal­ism and Their Effects in the World,” Bill Saint
“The Amer­i­can Covenant and the Amer­i­can Dream,” John Win­frey
“Will Cor­po­ra­tions Serve-or Exploit-the Human Fam­ily?” ed. John Cobb
“For Work­ers,” Eliz­a­beth Hinson-Hasty
“Cap­i­tal­ism and Chris­tian­ity: Com­pat­i­ble World­views?” Elisa Owen

The Ques­tion of Inequal­ity: Unchained Links
“Toma­toes of Wrath,” Chris Hedges
“Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs between Whites, Blacks, His­pan­ics,” Pew Study (link)
“Stop Cod­dling the Super Rich,” War­ren Buf­fet (link)
“Why War­ren Buf­fet Is Wrong,” Jef­frey A. Miron (link)
“Too Much: An Online Weekly on Excess and Inequal­ity,” Insti­tute for Pol­icy Stud­ies (link)
“Nei­ther Poverty Nor Riches: Com­pen­sa­tion, Equity, and the Unity of the Church,” Advi­sory Com­mit­tee on Social Wit­ness Pol­icy (link)

Chris­t­ian Wit­ness: Con­struc­tion, Com­plic­ity, and Resis­tance
“Time­line of Social Poli­cies,” Pres­by­ter­ian Church (USA)
“Social Creed for the 21st cen­tury,” National Coun­cil of Churches & PC(USA)
“Search­ing for God’s Econ­omy in Protes­tant The­ol­ogy,” Robert C. Traw­ick
“Past and Present, The Church Speaks on Eco­nomic Mat­ters and New Chal­lenges,” Chris Iosso
“Debt-ceiling Bill: Pro­grams that Serve the Com­mon Good Are Bear­ing the Cost,” Gradye Par­sons, Stated Clerk of the PC(USA)
“Inter-Generational Jus­tice, the Gospel, and One Pres­by­ter­ian Denomination’s Posi­tion,” Casey Jones
“Wit­ness of These Things: Ecu­meni­cal Engage­ment in a New Era” (link)
“Accra Con­fes­sion” (link)
“AGAPE Doc­u­ment” (link)

Re-Envisioning
“The Ends of Wealth and the Divine Econ­omy,” National Coun­cil of Churches
“Flour­ish­ing through Con­tri­tion: Hunger and Trans­for­ma­tion,” Shan­non Jung
“Covenan­tal Eco­nom­ics: God’s House­hold,” Tim Beach-Verhey
“Reli­gious Action for Afford­able Hous­ing: Cre­at­ing Com­mu­nity,” Nile Harper
“The Divine Econ­omy & A The­ol­ogy of Debt,” James Noel
“Fin­ish­ing the Unfin­ished Busi­ness of Dr. King,” Char­lene Sin­clair and the Poverty Ini­tia­tive
“Paul at Sea: A Sea­far­ing Saga with Ran­dom Inter­rup­tions,” a ser­mon by Lisa Larges

Hear­ing Scrip­ture
“Isa­iah 58,” NRSV
“Matthew 23:23,” NRSV

Clos­ing Prayers
“Against Cor­po­rate Dom­i­na­tion and Amer­i­can Indif­fer­ence,” Dar­ryl Trim­iew
“For Farm­work­ers Strug­gling for a Just Wage,” Fran­cisca Cortes

Action Steps

Resources and Rec­om­mended Bibliography