A month or so back I read Thomas McCraw's very informative work, The Founders and Finance. The book essentially paints a picture of the early developments in American finance, particularly as directed by three immigrants (Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and Albert Gallatin). Because...
I will have the audio available via a YouTube link in the next few days as well ...
I have not endorsed any candidate in the Republican primary, other than to say that I plan to enthusiastically support the guy who ends up running against Barack Obama. If any of these candidates are nominated (besides Ron Paul) I will be prayerfully and...
Hit the link below for an audio download of the speech I recently gave at the annual Center for Cultural Leadership conference in San Francisco. I enjoyed giving the speech, and perhaps you will find something in it you agree with. For those...
The following is what I posted on my Facebook page tonight: Let me be clear as can be as someone who loves the Lord w/ every ounce of breath in his body: The self-righteous sniveling little moralists telling people that they should not be celebrating the...
I always say that where NT Wright is strong (theology and hermeneutics) he has few peers (if any), but where he is weak (economics and politics) he is atrocious in a way I barely ever see. I am reading his Romans devotional book in my daily devotions...
"Good news - the President has announced a reduction of the government work force by one million people (20%). Bad news - the cuts were ordered by President Raul Castro in Cuba." So began the 20th anniversary dinner of The Acton Institute tonight in Grand Rapids,...
There is no subject that invokes as much passion in me as that of a Christian's interaction with culture. I was raised to believe that "God is in the universe business" (thank you, dad), and I spend the bulk of my extra-curricular time exploring ways...
I am very excited to report that the inaugural issue of Fidelity: Ethics in Unethical Times is now available, a hard-hitting journal in the field of cultural and moral thought from the Center for Cultural Leadership. Yours truly (that's me) has a chapter in the journal entitled...
I have been passionate about a theology of work and vocation for my entire adult life. Being raised with Calvininian/Kuyperian instincts, I think I know where this comes from ideologically. But deeper than that I think it is a pathological issue for me...
