Looking for an event last April at Vanderbilt Divinity School, a reporter mistakenly wandered into Vanderbilt’s nearby Owen Graduate School of Management.
Little did the business students know when they politely directed the reporter to the nearby divinity school, the discussion that night would be in part about the possibilities of a “post-capitalist society.”
“There’s a famous joke that says Christians talk about sexuality so much because they don’t want to talk about politics,” said Joerg Rieger, founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at the divinity school, during a June 13 Zoom event about his book “Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God.”
“There’s certainly some truth to that, right?” added Rieger, a prominent Christian scholar and United Methodist. “But I would expand that joke and say Christians do not talk about politics so much because we don't want to talk about the economy.”
The Wendland-Cook program is focused “on issues of justice that arise at the intersection of religion, economics and ecology,” according to its website.
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