Could not put this book down

I strongly urge anyone who lives in the midwest United States to pick up Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism by Richard C. Longworth. He writes an engrossing, provocative, distressing, and hopeful portrait of how the midwest has largely been left behind by globalism and must get their act together in order to shape, not only the future of the midwest, but the future of America. The book made me think about my own role as a pastor, and how the forces of globalism impacts the church, not only because globalism impacts the people in the church, but it even impacts the institution of the church. Lots to think about. And I'm glad this book has a bibliography.