NPR News
NPR has been covering some interesting stories lately. I have been keeping an eye on the Anglican Church situation with some interest, and NPR has been covering the story to some degree. There was a story of another church (in Kansas) that has left the Episcopal Church, and how many more are expected to leave as well. The church described sounded much like a typical mega-church with video screens and pathetic contemporary worship (they even played a clip, and I cringed). And when I say "pathetic" I don't even mean to comment on whether or not "contemporary" music should be used for worship, but rather just that it is so...bad. I mean, if you're going to try and be like the world, at least try and be good at it.

NPR is also doing a series on the"Global Market" and how it affects the economy. Yesterday they had an old Texas cotton farmer on, and it was interesting to see the ideas from "I'll Take My Stand" at work. Here is a man that is so dependent on the money economy and in particular a money crop, that he is completely enslaved to the system. The Twelve Southerners lamented that as a result of industrialization, farmers in the South would be competing with farmers across the country, but here is a man who has to compete with farmers across the world. So he is paid by the government to over-produce his cotton, and is shipped by freight to china where it is made into fabric, then shipped to indonesia to be turned into a t-shirt, shipped back to the good ole USofA, and then distributed by Wal-Mart to the good country-folk in that same farmer's hometown. 

¶ 4/27/2005 10:23:00 AM