An Eye for What Others Failed to See

In early March 2009, Susan and I found our way through a maze of hallways into the office of Dr. Robert Woodberry, then a sociology professor on the University of Texas at Austin campus.  His mother had grown up in the Minneapolis area, and he was doing some...

The Gospel Escalator

Social and economic inequality promise to haunt our globalizing world as it rockets forward through the first quarter of the 21st century.  The rich few get richer, while the middle class and the poor stagnate. This narrative of inequality not only has great...