Consumer Culture engages powerfully in our moral and spiritual formation. That formation, William T. Cavanaugh says, appropriates some Christian elements but distorts them. This is the fourth in the series on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire. “How we relate to the world is a spiritual discipline,” Cavanaugh says. (p. 47) If that is the case, then our consumer culture is especially good at disciplining us spiritually. Cavanaugh looks at two ways consumerism carries on this discipline. It instills an attitude... Read more