congregational arguments about money. At least in this sense Marx was right: There is a kind of economic determinism at work in our lives. Money makes the world go around. Ernest Becker noted that as belief in God and other traditional sources of immortality eroded in Western culture, money assumed a god-like quality in our lives, our ticket to enduring significance in the face of death. We sometimes say, in the face of materialism, “You can’t take it with you.” But that observation does not defeat