The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary, discusses the role that the cultivation of “desires” for certain market products and modern lifestyles represents a bigger threat to contemporary faith life than a crashing economy or a conflict ridden-political environment. How are desires formed? And what does it mean to see the theater of our desires as the most important yet under-rated theater of our age. And how might the Church respond by cultivating desires of its own?