Lutheran historian and theologian Martin Marty seeks perspective on our economic predicament by interleaving Wall Street Journal headlines with passages from the King James Bible.
His current Sightings column is complex, satisfying in its Psalm 146:3 warnings against "trust in princes," and offres a hopeful postscript:
Reinhold Niebuhr, in The Irony of American History, comments about Psalm 2:4's "sting of judgment upon our vanities," that "if the [divine] laughter is truly ironic it must symbolize mercy as well as judgment. For whenever judgment defines the limits of human striving it creates the possibility of an humble acceptance of those limits. Within that humility mercy and peace find a lodging place."
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