“When I was young, it was so simple. I thought God was good. I thought God rewarded those who obey the rules. I thought my good news was accessible to everyone if only they had the ears to listen. I thought my country was a place where hard work was rewarded on a level playing field, no matter where you came from …"

D.L. Mayfield's penetrating book, "The Myth of the American Dream," examines the obsession with safety, ease, affluence and power among American Christians, and how the American church may have prized things that are in conflict with the imperatives at the core of the faith. 

Mayfield's first book was "Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith."

Outro music: "All in it Together" by Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy

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