Is competition un-Christian?
I recently saw this question asked—is competition un-Christian?—as if a negative answer was self evident. It was treated as some kind of weapon against capitalism.
Mark Horne
Contributor
Mark Horne has served as a pastor and worked as a writer. He is the author of The Victory According To Mark: An Exposition of the Second Gospel, Why Baptize Babies?,J. R. R. Tolkien, and Solomon Says: Directives for Young Men. He is the Executive Director of Logo Sapiens Communications and the writer for SolomonSays.net.
Is employment inherently exploitative? A Biblical perspective
...the existence of people who provide a way to acquire an income is not a reason life is hard. Without them, life would be far harder. The temptation to find fault with them is a form of the eternal attraction to scapegoat and blame visible targets for one’s troubles.
Is it Biblical to charge interest on debt?
Usury is merely the rent of money. If usury is sinful, then so is rent of anything else.
Did the industrial revolution make us dehumanized, or superhuman?
Are we really dealing with something intrinsically dehumanizing? Is it possible that narratives we tell ourselves are causing more unpleasantness than the actual process?
Contentment, not poverty, should be the goal for Christians
...while it might be relatively simple to “make do” with less as a single individual, unmarried and childless, whose parents do not need financial help, simplicity gets complicated quickly in a world where people are supposed to provide for the well-being of others.
Scapegoating the food industry
The Food Industry” isn’t a central organization with a mission to feed people. It is not a charity or ministry. It is people making a living ... consumers are as much a part of the food industry as producers, because producers are keenly interested in what the consumers signal to them
Don’t let economic despair become an excuse for sloth
When Christians face economic catastrophe brought on by generations of bad decisions, how should they respond? Give up or get to work?
Soldiers need to be strong? What about the war in the marketplace?
No one has a right to tell a stranger that he should neglect some other priority to strength train and develop his endurance. But, it is pretty obvious, as reflected in the trouble recruiting fit soldiers, that Americans are generally overfed and under-trained.
Tyrants’ dilemma: do they want us productive or dependent?
What does a tyrannical government want? It wants people to rely on it, and fear independence. It wants them to mistrust their own judgments, and instead depend on the wisdom of its “experts.”
Material prosperity and the afterlife
Christians and non-Christians alike have interpreted Christian theology as a renunciation of the physical world ... Somehow the view persists that Christianity is unconcerned about earthly concerns such as the standard of living.
