What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs (ed. Brazos Press, 2000) - ISBN: 9781587430039