Finding Faith: The tragic failure behind $40 million

MINNEAPOLIS — Lord have mercy. Forty million dollars to play basketball for one season. Good work if you can get it, as they say! Last week, I learned via radio news as I was driving home from a concert enjoyed in the Big City, where my professional basketball teams (don t snooze on the WNBA!) of choice reside, I learned the resident NBA team granted that jaw-dropping, one-year contract extension to one of its stars. Friends, I like my professional sports distractions as much as the next diehard fan, but the fact that I was hearing this news story just a day after sending our mission s leadership team the most recent bad economic news for the people of our region, well, it made me yearn for an honest conversation about wealth in this country. What I sent my team in an email was this from a Minnesota Public Radio story: One notable exception is wages, which have stayed flat in Minnesota since last September while prices have risen by 3.7 percent, according to the la