Retail Evangelism

NPR

Published December 1, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Essayist Julie Hauserman has seen the light: it's blue and it's spinning on top of a pole at Kmart. She says it's time for Americans to heed the call of our national religion: shopping.

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