Malcolm Foley: Child of Mammon or Child of God?: The Anti-Greed Gospel

Malcolm Foley, special adviser to the president for equity and campus engagement at Baylor University, argues that race and racism are fundamentally not issues of pride but of greed in a lecture, “Child of Mammon or Child of God?: The Anti-Greed Gospel. The sociology and anthropology department, history department, Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Provost’s Office sponsored the lecture. “What’s so bad about racism?” asks Foley, pastor at Mosaic Waco and religious historian at Baylor, where he directs Black Church Studies at Truett Seminary. “Is it about hate and ignorance? Is the solution education and diverse relationships? Or are the problem and solution deeper? “The solution is not that we merely think about one another differently, but that we treat one another differently. The only truly antiracist Christian communities are the anti-greed ones.” Foley graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in religious studies and finance. He earned a Master of Divinity at Yale Divinity School and a doctorate in religion from Baylor.