Columnist, author and broadcaster Michael Coren points to a silver lining to the growing economic doom sweeping across the globe in yesterday’s National Post, suggesting that the current financial woes are forcing the Western world to reevaluate it’s addiction to material goods and ponder the deeper, spiritual meaning of life. As Coren writes: “The sudden realization that material wealth is transitory and that earning, spending and saving are as much symptoms as they are solutions should lead us to grapple for the greater and grander things in life. Such as God, faith, family, community, the spiritual and the knowledge that this is the land of shadows and that real life hasn’t begun yet.” The column follows statements from various evangelical and mainline church denominations calling for a return to faith and traditional values in the face of the economic downturn. As faith and ethics reporter Stuart Laidlaw noted in a front-page piece in the Toronto Star, as the economy continues to fall, many churches are stepping up. The hope is that the focus of churches across the nation will not be limited merely to social justice concerns and physical poverty, but grassroots revival and cultural renewal.
Public date: February 25th, 2009
