Category Archives: Politics

Why Minimum Wage Laws Hurt the Poor

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell The so-called “Fair Minimum Wage Act” (H.R. 1010 or S. 460) would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 over two years, and then progressively each year based on inflation (the consumer price index). … Continue reading →

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Paying for Free Speech

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

*Posted by Kirk Spencer Free speech isn’t free.  I am never more conscious of this fact than when I hear these ominous words: “We need to talk!?” I know that if I am not very careful in how I use … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 7

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Today’s is the seventh and final post in our summary of Jay Wesley Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperCollins, 2009), and it covers Chapter 8, “Are We … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 6

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell This post is the second-to-last in the series, “Christianity and Capitalism,” in which I have been summarizing Jay Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. Chapter 7, “Doesn’t Capitalism … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 4

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Isn’t capitalism based on greed? This is the question answered in chapter 5 of Jay Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. In the movie Wall Street, character Gordon Gekko famously states, “greed is good.” … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 3

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Two weeks ago forchristandculture.com posted my second entry over J. Richards’s book Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (New York: HarperOne, 2009). In that entry I summarized chapter 2, … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 2

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Last week began a seven-part treatment of Jay Richards’s book Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (All material in quotation marks and most of the material in general for … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 1

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell In 2009 HarperCollins published a book by Jay Richards entitled Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. The title is, I assume, purposefully provocative. It certainly catches one’s attention, especially … Continue reading →

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Passionate Politics

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

*Posted by Winston Hottman Matt Anderson applies some great advice from Martin Luther, addressing the importance of our motives in the way we engage politically as evangelicals: …it is  interesting that Luther (like Augustine) recognizes the subtle differences between zeal … Continue reading →

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Obama on Gun Control

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell In answering a question about gun legislation at his press conference January 14, 2013, Barack Obama stated, “If there’s a step we can take that will save even one child from what happened in Newtown then … Continue reading →

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