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From Whom No Secrets Are Hid: Introducing the Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Psalms express the most elemental human emotions, representing situations in which people are most vulnerable, ecstatic, or driven to the extremities of life and faith. Many people may be familiar with a few Psalms, or sing them as part of worship. Here highly respected author Walter Brueggemann offers readers an additional use for the Psalms: as scripted prayers we perform to help us reveal...

Second, our closely held world of anxiety rooted in scarcity evokes an ideology of greed. The mantra for that social reality comes from Gordon Gekko’s line in the 1987 film, Wall Street: “Greed is good.” The outcome is a rapacious world in which those who can get do so; those who have get more, and for such greedy appetites, there is then need for cheap labor and the wounding of those who are not fast enough or born well enough or positioned well enough for the rat race. Greed becomes the force
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