Brueggemann on the Crisis in the Church

For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.

— Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent