I don’t buy much music. Last album was U2’s No Line on the Horizon.
Today I bought an interesting package of permissions to Derek Webb’s new album, including a T-Shirt. I didn’t notice if there was a bumper-sticker.
The entire marketing campaign for this album was interesting, including obscure clues to hidden copies of portions of the [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Again, it is important to surround yourself with outstanding people.
Brent Droege is one such young man. He has been volunteering at Agape Corner, where I once taught, for three years or more. He often helps with my parent’s class of first and second graders.
Today he gets kudos from none other than the Dean of the [...]
The web is tangled.
My former professor at NC State, Craig Newmark, linked to a book report by Philip Greenspun at Harvard Law on Macur Olsen’s The Rise and Decline of Nations.
I shared this with my friends over at Common Root.
Mark has some good thoughts, and I reply:
The question of how to subvert becomes strategic.
Do we [...]
Who is worth more: a person alive 100 years ago, a person alive today, a person alive 100 years from now, or a person who is never born, or a person who has always existed?
Often times arguments about sustainability imply that there is some objective standard by which having fewer people today, and fewer people [...]
Are we called to help the world move toward justice for the oppressed, or are we to provide that justice out of our own means?
The guy who holds a subsidy on corn bought that subsidy from the farmer before him. He paid the present value at that time of all future subsidies. That is, if [...]
As (future) economists, we are asked for advice about shaping policy. Not every profession gets that opportunity. Clergy have a much different way of speaking “truth to power” than a Christian economist might. And the advice a Christian economist might give to a policy maker is quite likely to be different than the [...]