A beloved colleague in ministry, a brilliant and humble guy, used to
joke that his one real claim to fame was that he had successfully
air-conditioned two churches during his career. That's a real
accomplishment—his ability to run a capital campaign, to rally the
troops for the work and fundraising, always impressed me.
Major crises in recent years have been fostered by an unregulated private sector. Wall Street’s recklessness unraveled the economy and put millions out of work. BP oil company cut corners on safety and ravaged the environment in pursuit of profits. And yet, the major new political movement that has arisen in this period has directed its furor not at Wall Street or Big Business but at the federal government, which has tried to mitigate these disasters.
