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Jesus told parables to teach His disciples spiritual truth. In each parable, he used truth about the physical world that was well known and accepted by the audience. He used ...
“Only a believer in the economic way of thinking can safely explore moral reflection in economics.” – Alex Salter INTRODUCTION Paul tells us, in 2 Corinthians 3:6, that “the ...
Transaction costs are a rather nebulous concept in economics — they have many definitions and there is no single settled meaning. From a high level, transaction costs are simply barriers ...
This article will cover what the Bible says about two overlapping subjects, money and trade. I define trade as two people exchanging goods or services either directly or through the ...
Introduction The Judaic prohibition on pigs has puzzled scholars for centuries — so much so that certain atheist writers, such as Christopher Hitchens, have used this prohibition as evidence against ...
Emmanuel (God with us), Jesus looked into the hearts of religious and politically powerful men and then bluntly told them what he saw: a self-absorbed and spiritually dead ruling class, ...
It is not unusual for one discipline to borrow a concept from another. For example, after Darwin’s theory revolutionized biology, specialists in economics, psychology, and even biblical studies looked for ...
Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination was the selection for the Libertarian Christian Institute’s first book club discussion. Register for future book club discussions here: https://libertarianchristians.com/bookclub/ Walter Brueggemann’s 1978 book The ...
When our Christians for Liberty Network hosts are not busy planning episodes and being hosts, sometimes they use their time to be the guest on a show. Every so often ...
Those who think the Lord’s Prayer and Jubilees support their political goal of blanket debt forgiveness should take a closer look at the Bible and Jewish history. Two authors of ...
Singapore’s economic success has resulted in one of the richest economies in the world. The country has a real GDP per capita—an indicator of people’s standard of living—of US$59,797, while ...
The Russian Government is Imposing Capital Controls, not the Gold Standard. They are confiscating gold as one among many capital controls practices. The Russian central bank has announced that they ...
Stagecoaches were used during the (Not So) Wild West, before the invention of the railway, to transport mail, valuables, and people. In the collective imagination we have the image of ...
Menger wrote in Geld, 1909, that “what is money for one people is not necessarily money for other peoples, and what previously use to be money is nowadays often a ...
I want to direct your weekend reading to three excellent passages from my good friend Daniel Krawisz. Part 1: Free Market Law Libertarians sometimes try to derive solutions from the ...
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” — Matthew 24:14 There are ...
This classic essay was originally written by Oscar Cooley and Paul Poirot, and is excerpted from a pamphlet originally published by FEE in 1951. Can we hope to explain the ...
Jimmy Song is the author of Thank God For Bitcoin and Programming Bitcoin. Subscribe to his Substack Newsletter. And, he was featured on Episode 225 of the Libertarian Christian Podcast, ...
By Edmund Opitz. —- Is there anything in the basic makeup of the men and women we know, or those we read about in the press, or encounter in the ...
This article was originally published in the Joplin Globe on May 14th, 2018. This is the final installment of the 7 pieces in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails ...
This article was originally published on CNN Business on February 9, 2021. The full text can be found here. This is the sixth of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why ...
I want to state clearly upfront that I did not write this article, but its relevance to our present day is even more clear. Sound money is going to be ...
The topic of how Christians ought to manage their finances through evolving political and economic environments can be a tricky one. We know what the Bible says: the love of ...
Can pro-life Christians vote in good faith for a pro-choice candidate? Richard Mouw of Fuller Theological Seminary, along with other prominent evangelicals seem to think so since, in their view, ...
“Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me?” —Matthew 20:15 Do businesses exist to serve shareholders? Or do they exist to serve the interests ...
“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” — Matthew 7:5 I grew ...
Someone else having a billion dollars does no harm to you. It very likely makes their life harder – not materially, but emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically – but it does ...
Our dear friend Larry Reed, an advisor to LCI and former President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), recently released his book Was Jesus A Socialist? and it follows on ...
We’ve all seen them! The posts on social media from people on our friends list who are condemning, deriding, and even belittling anyone objecting to the economic shutdown of America. ...
Left-leaning Christians (and even non-Christians) often point to Jesus’ admonitions about personal wealth. Even the theologian David Bentley Hart, in the introduction to his New Testament translation, claims that the ...
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