In a superb essay Andy Crouch explains why the current economic meltdown may be cause for hope. Here is one of his most thought-provoking paragraphs: “…here is the good news in our very real and sobering predicament: Easy is not going to be easy any longer. Our culture’s addiction to ease is unsustainable. A core Christian conviction–one that informed much of the best of Western civilization–is that the good life is not easy. It requires discipline. It invites us into pain. It makes us ascetics–not people who shun all earthly joys, but people who choose to limit our appetite for ease so that we might actually know true joy.”
