Barbara Ehrenreich author of Nickel and Dimed has a new book coming out. Clearly the book promotion, a bunch of interviews

• Globe and mail
• NY Times
• Salon

No. What happens is, here you have this amazing, charismatic, madly generous Jesus, who says that when someone asks for your coat, give him not just your coat but your cloak also. Someone sues you in the court of law, give him everything. Then he turns into God, or the Son of God, and becomes the risen Christ. Now everything changes. Because now there is a personal selfish goal to be achieved in following this faith. To get into heaven. To get into heaven.

• Dreher: dealing with things we can’t explain
• Douthat on Ehrenreich
• Ryan Bell “year without God”
• Terry Gross NPR Interview