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What if Christianity isn't really about going to heaven when you die? In this special edition of Unbelievable, N.T. Wright joins Dr John Nelson at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford to unpack the central argument of his book God's Homecoming.


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President Trump on Saturday announced he is forming an "AI Force," rejecting the negative sentiment around AI data centers and tech leaders' warnings about the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

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related reading noted by Prof Wright from a new book by the author who coined, "Culture Wars" decades ago:

"From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis

Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions " most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice.

While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying and evolving solidarity drawn from the cultural resources of America's "hybrid Enlightenment."

James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of "culture wars" thirty years ago, tells us in this new book that those historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.

While a deepening political polarization is the most obvious sign of this, the true problem is not polarization per se but the absence of cultural resources to work through what divides us.

The destructive logic that has filled the void only makes bridging our differences more challenging. In the end, all political regimes require some level of unity. If it cannot be generated organically, it will be imposed by force.

Can America's political crisis be fixed? Can an Enlightenment-era institution"liberal democracy"survive and thrive in a post-Enlightenment world?

If, for some, salvaging the older sources of national solidarity is neither possible sociologically, nor desirable politically or ethically, what cultural resources will support liberal democracy in the future?"

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"CEOs now make roughly 325 times as much as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times the average worker's salary."

Which is why workers were paid a living wage up until about 1975; corporate CEOs weren't quite such a success as bloodsuckers.

Not to mention that:

"Worker Wage Impact

Stagnation: Real wages failed to match productivity

Inflation outpaced hourly gains

Living wage erosion over decades

Shift Factors: Decline in union strength
Deregulation of industries

Shareholder-first corporate models"

also:

"The Productivity - Pay Divergence: After 1979, the historic link between worker productivity and typical compensation broke down.

While productivity grew, real working-class wages continued a long-term flat or declining trend.

Declining Labor Share of Income: Proponents of this view point out that the labor share of national income began a long-term structural decline after 1982.

Profits increasingly shifted toward corporate reserves, shareholder returns, and executive compensation rather than employee paychecks.

Weakened Labor Power: The administration's strict stance on unions"most notably exemplified by the firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981"significantly diminished the bargaining power of labor unions, contributing to wage stagnation for blue-collar and industrial workers.

Widening Inequality: Studies, including 2020 research by economists David Hope and Julian Limberg, indicate that tax cuts for the wealthy primarily increased income inequality without significantly impacting broader job or wage growth." AI

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