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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Christianity and the Crash?
Atlantic Magazine contributing editor Hanna Rosin traces the connections between the “prosperity gospel” that is taught in some evangelical churches and the economic crash; she found out that some banks enlisted preachers and religious community leaders to help push loans that parishioners couldn’t afford.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Deborah Becker.
Every year, it's a weekend of emotional ambiguity marking two medical anniversaries with totally different outcomes.
More recently, a life saving surgery. In the distance, a reminder that one of the few potentially life saving amateur tools in which the public is trained fails 9 of 10 times.
The painful truth is that your best may not be enough to save a loved one. But because they are a loved one, you try... And live with the memory through your Sadderdays.
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