Universe Bends Toward Justice

The Universe Bends Towards Justice Radical reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.Orbis, 2011ISBN 9781570759406 Softcover, 254 pp. 6.0 X 9.5 X 0.5 inches | 0.91 pounds In these passionate and wide-ranging essays Obery Hendricks offers a challenging engagement with spirituality, economics, politics, contemporary Christianity, and the abuses committed in its name. Among his themes: the gap between the spirituality of the church and the spirituality of Jesus; the ways in which contemporary versions of gospel music "sensationalize" today's churches into social and political irrelevance; how the economic principles and policies espoused by the religious right betray the most basic principles of the same biblical tradition they claim to hold dear; the domestication of Martin Luther King's message to foster a political complacency that dishonors King's sacrifices. He ends with a stinging rebuke of the religious right's idolatrous "patriotism" in a ra