Tag: mediating institutions

Budget Cuts of Biblical Proportions

May 4, 2011

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy

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…
Self-Interest and Benevolence: Partners, not Antonyms (Part 11)

Mar 18, 2009

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Economics, Series: Self-Interest and Benevolence, Theology

(Link to Part 10) Benevolence in Family and Beyond I concluded the last post by characterizing the family as a benevolence-oriented commune. There is communal property. Some laborers produce goods for trade. There is a place for those without the capacity to do economic labor and a place for caregivers. Biological bonds and those established…