"We have made golden calves of ourselves-become a nation of terrified, self-obsessed idols.. The gospel is too radical for any culture larger than the Amish to ever come close to realizing..Taking seriously the actual message of Jesus should serve to moderate the greed and violence that mark this culture"
Bill McKibben's life-giving article published in Harpers Magazine, August 2005 is available at
http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html
Original: The Christian Paradox