Tag: theology and economics
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After Cape Town: Still Learning to Talk About Business and Ministry
Acton Commentary: After Cape Town: Still Learning to Talk About Business and Ministry … The sad reality for far too many in the church is that “ministry” is sacred and “business” is secular. You do not have to be a theologian to grasp the logical conclusions that follow and that perpetuate these bifurcated realms. Christian…
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Bridging the theology-economy gap – Susan Lee
NPR Marketplace: Bridging the theology-economy gap Kai Ryssdal: The head of the Anglican Church is no fan of the global financial industry. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been stirring up controversy in England with some fairly strongly worded sermons and statements on that subject. A couple of weeks ago he brought those views to Wall…
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Free Market Capitalism: Embrace or Fear?
While preparing to write some posts dealing with ecology, I was revisiting an essay on stewardship in Toward an Evangelical Public Policy written by Scot Rodin. He has four wonderful paragraphs on capitalism and economic systems. I present them below, but for these paragraphs to make sense, you must know that Rodin has been talking…