grace

Happy Moltmann Monday! Today’s selection comes from Ethics of Hope, where Moltmann is talking about consumption, consumerism and how it clashes with our identity in God: A society which takes the growth of its production of goods and services as the yardstick of its health is forced to increase consumption….

Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem,   and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.  Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God;    put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting;  for God will show…