In short, our congregations are marked by a warped spirituality. We have been formed spiritually in ways that bracket the realities of violence and poverty and oppression, ignoring them (at worst) or confining them (at best) to the margins of our attention.

We have segregated “spiritual” matters from “physical” or “material” ones, emptying our preaching and teaching of its ability both to bless and to condemn.

The “salvation” we offer is more like cotton candy—mostly air and empty of calories.