Since committed to write a response to every chapter in Jim Wallis’s book, Rediscovering Values, I’ve become very busy and need to devote more attention to those things in my life. But I wanted to finish the book and share my thoughts on the rest of it. I skimmed through some major sections of the [...]
In his book, Rediscovering Values, Jim Wallis’s blames what he calls the Great Recession on three philosophies that we as a society have bought into: “Greed is Good,” “It’s All About Me,” and “I Want It Now.” While ignoring a great opportunity to discuss what about the institutional structures of our society promote such excessive [...]
Jim Wallis gets much of his social justice theory and policies from the prophets in the Old Testament. He considers himself a modern-day prophet, and is oftentimes criticizing political antics for their missing moral component. In the spirit and fervor of the OT prophets, Wallis often brings up biblical concepts such as redistribution of wealth [...]
For those (probably only one of you) who are wondering where I’ve been on my Jim Wallis posts lately, just a quick reminder that I’m still reading the book, and have finished the next chapter but am delayed in responding intelligently because I’m tied up in some other books, namely Brian McLaren’s A New Kind [...]
Bob Murphy, an anarcho-capitalist economist who is also a Christian, is a daily blogger who writes about economics from various angles, some of which I can’t even pretend to follow, others which are more philosophical in nature (which is where I’m most interested in human action and economic analysis). On Sundays, however, he writes a [...]
Bible translations are a dime a dozen, especially when one is familiar with many of the Scriptures early in life. While I’m often skeptical of new translations delivering on their promises, I had some previous exposure to The Voice project’s New Testament “translation,” so I was very interested in reading a poetic and artistic rendition [...]
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