by Merianna Harrelson | Feb 25, 2021 | Opinion
Everything in our capitalistic, consumer-driven culture is telling us to do more and be more. According to Yahoo Finance, nearly half of Americans have a side hustle. People aren’t taking these side hustles in order to get ahead. Rather, they are essential just to...
by Leroy Seat | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
John Ruskin was a highly influential British writer, art critic, and social thinker in the last half of the 19th century. His most important literary work highlighted what has been called “the scandal of grace.” When I read the Summer 2019 issue of Plough Quarterly, I...
by David Swartz | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion
“Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America,” Darren Dochuk’s epic history about oil and religion, covers two family dynasties. The Rockefellers, who launched Standard Oil, represented the civil religion of crude and its attempts to rationalize...
by Ralph Martire | Apr 10, 2018 | Opinion
The Bible doesn’t provide much guidance on tax policy, other than suggesting we ought to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.” Fortunately, when it comes to designing a tax system, fiscal policy textbooks have identified three core economic...
by Roger Olson | Apr 13, 2016 | Opinion
Christian thinkers support a variety of economic theories as “middle axioms” (whether they call them that or not) for implementing Kingdom ethics within the world that is not yet the Kingdom of God. Some strongly support communism without the Marxian...
