PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
When Johann Sebastian Bach stood up to Mammon
Bach’s Debt Cantata demands that you listen not to the financiers and politicians, but to your conscience, writes DAVID YEARSLEY
THE Congressional Budget Office reported recently that the federal debt will overtake GDP by next year and will double to more than $33 trillion by 2030.
Debt and sin are synonymous in Christian thought and liturgy: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” runs the Lord’s Prayer as recited by Presbyterians.
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