My latest: the prosperity gospel of college grads

This week I’m in CT arguing that the prosperity gospel is afoot in upper-middle-class, college-educated Christian circles. It’s not the prosperity gospel you’re used to, though. Instead, it’s a kind of bastardized N. T. Wright for the masses, mediated by well-meaning seminary grads for fellow members of the laptop class. Implicit and sometimes explicit, it calls well-to-do believers to make the world a better place and to stop worrying so much about heaven. When it’s not the social gospel redivivus, when it’s not plain old works righteousness, it’s functionally a permission slip to ignore spiritual things for the sake of earthly things. But forgetfulness of eternity is ultimately avoidance of the gospel, which is never Jesus-plus but Jesus alone. Why? Because the only promise the gospel makes is Jesus.

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