IN A WORD

Key phrases for our polis today: spiritual crisis; ambition of empire; corporate takeover of media; 'winner take all' economic ethos; resurgence of virulent racism; lack of prophetic courage; identity politics which affirm thick racial identity but thin human identity (where opposite is true); demonizing of enemy instead of owning piece of tragic flaw; moral deceit and cruelty in place of creative seeking, doubting and trusting; living in an enshrined past rather than creative appropriation of an open past...