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This is only a starting point, and I may not be able to employ it for my actual dissertation, but it is the line of thinking which consumes all of my free thoughts.
This work provides an alternative narrative mode (the Virginia School of Political Economy rather than Marx) for the discussion of Theology [...]
Which is why I’m posting it on a public website…
Today (The fact that this came in on the day before the 4th seems very strategic, especially considering the appeals to nationalism within.) I got a letter from Advancing Native Missions.
They say, amongst other things:
Please forgive the urgent, confidential nature of this letter. But I do [...]
I just got my new Spring 2009 issue of Faith and Economics, a journal from the Association of Christian Economists, of which I am a student member (which means I don’t really pay).
Kenneth G. Elzinga and Matthew R. Givens have a paper on Christianity and Hayek.
They define economic liberty (per Hayek, 1960) as the “state [...]
In conversations about difficult topics it is important to share definitions. Capitalism is a word of many meanings.
In this conversation I lay out a defense of what I consider pure Capitalism and how Christians ought to behave among themselves, and what positions they ought to advocate – if any – in public policy debates. I [...]
Kids often fight over things which were gifts from their parents.
Suppose I slice a cake into several (unequal) pieces, and distribute them to my children. Now, this is cake mind you, not bread, not water. It is a pure bonus. Dessert. So I dole out the cake. It is quite likely that an argument will [...]
I highly encourage all of you to go take this short survey. My results demonstrate how rare a bird I am. I would have liked to have some of the questions worded differently, but I doubt very many other people would recognize the significance in the changes I would make – least of all the [...]
We have to be careful in public conversations involving the word “altruism.”
Many sciences employ this word particularly in cases of reciprocal altruism. One recent conversation cited several journal articles on biological reciprocal altruism. One involved warblers. Good on ‘em.
I would never deny that nature demonstrates reciprocal altruism. I think it is unfortunate that the word [...]
A high school student is thinking of majoring in economics and asks the following questions, with my responses indented:
1. What major biblical/moral principles would guide you in your philosophy/understanding of economics?
I could write a book and not fully unpack this question. I believe in limited government, voluntarism, common law processes, and the Christian Ethic. More [...]
Why did they come up with evolution? Because its true? Perhaps. I’m a creationist holdout.
But when I read things like this, I wonder why people adopted it as a theory of origins, and I begin to suspect that they supposed it to be a system which they could manipulate.
The great advantage of testing and data, [...]
The Common Sense Atheist wants atheists to promote evidence-based thinking, but also to recognize many Christians have strong emotional and relational investments in their beliefs.
I’d like to see those emotional ties attached to self-interested motives removed from the reasons why many of us maintain our Christianity.
The quote, with my thoughts in italics:
For example, let me [...]