Today I want to share a greatly beneficial resource. It is easy to look at the culture and cherry pick a text to support out opinion; however, bad hermeneutics are not becoming of a Berean. Dr. Ched Spellman is providing an incredible overview of the Biblical canon, how it came to be, and how the […]
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A Hermeneutical Goldmine
20 Sep 2023
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I’ve written here and here and here that free markets are most in alignment with God’s plan in a fallen world, and I argue that true private property rights (e.g., the right to not only use but exchange or sell the right to property) leads to the emergence of markets naturally, as we have differing […]
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Deconstructing the “De-growth” Movement
20 Aug 2017
Tom Rogan in the Washington Examiner wrote a very interesting piece on the new expression of an old idea–”degrowth.” (see http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-far-left-has-an-idiotic-new-craze-reduce-economic-growth/article/2631274). He leads with these words: “Even the Soviets sought to maximize economic output. But today’s contemporary far-left are far bolder: they believe that economics itself is wrong.” He writes further, “From their perspective, government […]
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Sharia Law Protests: The Truth About Sharia
10 Jun 2017
It has been reported that today (June 19m 2017) has been set aside for protests around the nation against Sharia law, the legal system used in most Muslim countries to a greater or lesser extent. The principles for Sharia are derived from both the Quran and Hadith, the alleged sayings of Muhammed and have been […]
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Are all sins the same?
19 Dec 2016
And if not, are there any implications for us in a political economy blog? Michael Kruger over at The Gospel Coalition asks the question of whether all sins are the same, and answers no. He notes that both people who take sin serious and those that don’t can come to this conclusion. For the person who […]
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The Real Battle
11 Oct 2016
The revelation about Donald Trump’s vulgar and pretty ugly statements about women has certainly generated heated discussion. I am not here to either defend his statements or to persuade anyone to vote for him. I will merely state the obvious: Christian voters find themselves in quite a quandary. On the one hand, I am convinced […]
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It has been pointed out by historians and journalists that political campaigns have always been a little bit or a lot vicious, with a good deal of “over the top” rhetoric. Witness the Adams-Jefferson campaign of 1800. It was pretty overheated on both sides. But I see something different at work now among liberals, or, […]
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This is the third and last (some are saying “how long O Lord”) of a series of blogs on Christian worldview. I defined what is meant by worldview, by integration of worldview in academic disciplines, the role of presuppositions as a starting point, the elements of any worldview and the issues of the relationship of […]
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Falwell Trumps the Pope
23 Feb 2016
It is simply too easy with a name like “Trump” when writing titles or headlines. I am sure the late night talk show hosts are having a field day. So, forgive my failure to resist the easy pun in titling this post. The reality is, there is nothing very funny in the topic which I […]
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Where there is no Vision, the people perish. Implications for Christian Political Economy
13 Oct 2015
Many of us have heard the Proverb 29:18 in the form of “where there is no vision, the people perish.” It is often used to suggest that without visionaries we can’t move forward. Politicians, both left and right, suggest this means we need to have their policies put forward to guarantee our future–since obviously they […]
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