We are more resourced than we’ve ever been, and yet we’ve never been more ignorant. Perhaps we could also point to the rise of the prosperity gospel, that heretical blend of legalism and magic that has infiltrated many corners of evangelicalism and is now being exported to the third world. Or in the United States, specifically, one could highlight the unholy wedding of Christianity and political ambition, a potent syncretism that fuels idolatry among both right-wingers and leftists. But the problems