Right now, a three-day conference is under way at Trinity Church in New York City. It’s the 44th National Theological Conference, hosted by the Trinity Institute. This year’s version is entitled “Creating Common Good,” and the theme is inequality. Institute Director Robert Owens Scott sets the stage for discussions in his opening remarks in the literature packet:
It’s no accident that Occupy [Wall Street] sprang from an idea in Ad Busters, a journal and website dedicated to using modern media for anticonsumerist purposes. Based on my friend’s definition of the goal of advertising, Occupy achieved precisely what it set out to do: it brought the facts of economic inequality out of the obscurity of government reports and tedious articles and into the broadest possible levels of public discourse in terms we can all understand.
