welfare state

Charity is no Part of the Government

Culture

This is the second of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails to Lift the Poor.” This guest post is by James Whitford, and ...

Could Government Welfare be Undermining Compassion?

Culture

This is the first of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails to Lift the Poor.” This guest post is by James Whitford, and ...

Ben Carson the Welfare and Warfare Statist

Politics

It happens every four years. Candidates for president issue books to sucker people to vote for them using the written word just like they sucker people every day to vote ...

Pope Francis Says the State Can Solve World Hunger

Economics

Pope Francis addressed the United Nations assembly at a recent conference regarding solutions to world hunger, saying that states across the world should increase their aid efforts and coordinate more ...

Theological Implications of State Social Justice Programs

Economics

Christians who identify with a Left political ideology frequently appeal to state intervention in the market as a means of promoting the common good. This is especially true as it ...

Codependency, Christian Love, and Liberty

Christian Worldview

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

Is Progress Possible?

Culture

This essay by C.S. Lewis was originally published in The Observer in 1958. It was subsequently printed in the book God In the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, subtitled ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

Christ and Compassion

Christian Worldview

Lawrence Reed (president of the Foundation for Economic Education) speaks of compassion and the State in a new article in The Freeman. In every election campaign, we hear the word ...

Liberals, Conservatives, and the Welfare State

Economics

Ronald Sider is a liberal. Paul Ryan is a conservative. But don’t let the labels fool you; they are more alike than you think. Sider is the founder of Evangelicals ...

What would the Twelve Apostles say about modern government?

History

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course essays by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- How would ...

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