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  • Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions

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    First Things: Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions Jordan Ballor … But in the final analysis the Call must be judged to suffer from the same fatal flaw that mars its less sophisticated and more strident cousins. Christian campaigns to make particular federal programs immune from funding reductions sends the wrong basic message both to politicians…

  • Compensated Work is Ministry

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    Acton PowerBlog: The Sheep and the Goats: Work and Service to Others Jordan Ballor offers some good insights drawing on the work of Lester DeKoster. … One reflexive response to this claim is to argue that when we do work for money, when we profit from our labor, we are really serving ourselves and not…

  • The Christian Market?

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    PowerBlog: The Christian Market?  Jordan Ballor … I do wonder, though, given that Joe acknowledges the role of free individuals (not to be abstracted from their social relationships and responsibilities, of course) whether we need a “third way” as he proposes, or simply a framework for evaluating a variety of acceptable ways of engaging the…

  • It Must Start with the Church

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    Acton PowerBlog (Jordan Ballor): It Must Start with the Church  Good Stuff! The question of cultural transformation looms over American Christianity. Should we engage culture? If so, how? In a battle for supremacy over American institutions? Or for the hearts and minds of the people? Reading through a sermon from Augustine, I was struck by…