Show Me Your Vocations
Last time out I touched upon the work-related implications of God’s “dominion directive.” Because it is such an important concept (and so integral to the free market concept I proudly embrace) I want to take the space of another post up to talk about work again – or...
Understanding Rand
(This post was originally posted at the Acton Institute's Commentary page)Christians have a deep ambivalence about Ayn Rand that probably draws as deeply from the facts of her biography as from her famous novels. When the refugee from the old Soviet Union met the...
An Influence So Subtle…
When a journalist reports on an influence upon events so subtle that it is not visible to the naked eye, he may be exposing something new and important; he may instead be grasping for non-existent straws. As a Wisconsin native and evangelical observer of public...
Fight of the Century II
Our friends at George Mason's Mercatus Center are back with another rap battle in Fight Of the Century: Hayek v. Keynes Round II.Best rhyme: Pretty perverse to call that prosperity rationed meat, rationed butter, a life of austerity ]]>
A Dominion Directive (Part 2)
In Part I we saw that something of a balance exists between the dominion over the planet that God gave to mankind at Creation, and the corresponding stewardship that cannot be separated from it. We hear in the first few chapters of Genesis the call to creativity...
A Tragic Shortage of Truth
Mr. Macintosh says to Charlie in one of my favorite moments of The West Wing, "If they're shooting at you, you must be doing something right." Paul Ryan must be doing something really, really right if the vitriol coming from the fellas at Patrol are any indication....
An Unexpected Consensus
Daniel Suhr has posted a review over at Mere Orthodoxy of our recent event on the document "A Call for Intergeneration Justice." Daniel points out that the panelists, while engaged in a lively debate, actually agreed on at least five important questions. Read the...
I Hope I Die
Full video of our April 20 event "I Hope I Die Before I Get Old" featuring Ron Sider, Jordan Ballor, Gideon Strauss, Jennifer Marshall, Jonathan Merritt, and Ryan Streeter on what Christians should be thinking about the debt crisis.]]>
Nobody Died: America's Long-Term Budget Crisis and "A Call for Intergenerational Justice"
In fact, our event last night didn't even reach the level of "shrill." Instead, it was a substantive discussion of both theology and faithful praxis, as well as engaging questions of specific policy proposals for solving America's debt crisis, including...
