The Kin-dom Economy: Recovering the Radical Jesus

What if the Jesus you were taught was never the real Jesus?

For two thousand years, the church has offered the world a Jesus who died to save us from original sin - a cosmic transaction that conveniently shifts focus away from everything he actually taught about money, power, land, and who gets to eat.

The real Jesus was an economic radical. He insisted that the earth belongs to God and, therefore, to everyone. He declared that debt forgiveness wasn't charity but a covenant obligation. He rode a borrowed donkey into Jerusalem as a direct act of political satire aimed at the most powerful empire in human history. And then that empire killed him, before borrowing his name and putting it on their letterhead.

The Kin-dom Economy: Recovering the Radical Jesus traces the full arc of Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter through nine essays that take Jesus' economic and political vision seriously. Drawing on stardust cosmology, the Hebrew concept of Jubilee, the hemorrhaging woman of Mark 5, the housing crisis in Brooklyn, and the post-scarcity world of Star Trek, these chapters ask a simple and dangerous question: what would it look like to actually live the way Jesus taught?