Faith, hubris, and the price of gasoline

North American Christians' reactions to rising gasoline prices are the subject of a recent essay by Michael Spencer:

Most Americans are inconvenienced by gas prices because of the value they place on mobility and the decisions they’ve made about the kind of life they want to live, decisions made with the assumption of cheap gas in the background.

So somewhere a homeless man or a family struggling to put food on the table will see a group of middle class suburban Christians gathered around a gas pump, praying that God will have mercy and get things back to where we can all go about our business.

I don’t have to spend much time asking if Jesus would join such a prayer meeting.

The whole article is worth reading. Thanks to Cerulean Sanctum for the link.