Deconstructing a Theology of Scarcity. Case Study: Watermark Zoning Case Presented to the City of Dallas

In their book, Moral Leadership for a Divided Age, David P. Gushee and Colin Holtz discuss 14 historical leaders' life stories and their leadership principles. In chapter four, the authors highlight the life of Harriet Tubman and identify the following leadership lesson, “Faith can drive both moral evil and moral greatness.” These authors go on to state that African slaves, white slaveholders, and the Northern and Southern Abolitionists each on some level claim to worship and adhere to the same sacred scriptures. From our current point of view, several hundred years removed, it seems impossible for enslaved Africans and white slave owners to find any agreement or any shared principles in the same scriptures. The authors address this point in the following statement, “It is easy for Christians to focus exclusively on abolitionists and the faith of enslaved people and easy for critics of Christianity to note racist Christians’ defenses of slavery. The question is not faith but what kind of faith, and to what end.”