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 [...]
Happy 4th, y’all.
Today I read this in an email from Americans For Prosperity. (I got in a heated argument with some hyper-Republicans at their national event last year. I tried to explain to someone how all flags are gangster symbols.)
The issue is the Cap and Trade bill, some notes on the House’s vote:
* Just two [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Over at Common Root several readers are beginning a study of Stanley Hauerwas‘ Resident Aliens.
Everyone is invited to join us. I will post highlights of the conversation here.
If you need a copy of the book, let me know and I will get you one overnight.
Just leave a comment asking for the book, and I will [...]
There is no right side in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. What gives any government legitimacy to exist? There is no standard for answering this question in Scripture (if you find one, please email it to me at ndsnow@gmail – those who quote Rom 13 need not apply) because there is no support for the [...]
Sunday afternoon my wife and I went to friends’ house to play Catan (after some Moe’s) and our kids were playing make-believe “Roman Soldier” in the other room.
Monday morning my friend sent an e-mail with pdf of a note my daughter wrote while playing this game. The transcript (b/c I’m cumputr iletrite and cain’t paist [...]
I’ve commented recently on Jesus Manifesto and Young Anabaptist Radicals in discussions about privilege:
Legal privileges are based on arbitrary distinctions upheld by force. In other words, they are the product of the state. Where land was taken from Native Americans by force, Europeans were acting just as pagan as the Indians. When Africans were enslaved [...]
country for immigrants.
I have the pdf of a book by Lant Pritchett sitting on my desktop somewhere. He talks about global poverty and migration from what I take to be the most ethical angle available to us. Reason does a bang up interview with him here on his new book, and I just [...]