for rachel (re: rev magazine)

The church has uncritically invited this logic of the free market into its own house through the through-going utilitarianism of the "church growth movement" and the uncritical adoption of management theory through a preoccupation with "leadership." We treat people like consumers, speak about "target audiences of the unchurched" and sell the gospel through means that cannot be differentiated from how any other commodity is sold in the marketplace.

- Introduction to Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics, and Economics, D. Stephen Long and Nancy Fox