There is a saying in philosophy: Every ought implies a can. In other words, it is assumed that everything we should or ought to do is also something that we have the ability to do. But in America we seem to have turned that equation on its head: Every can implies an ought. We have assumed that because we can build bigger cars, bigger homes, bigger shopping malls, that we ought to do those things. We have acted as if there was nothing in the model of Christ, Scripture, or the tradition of the church