Tags:Book Reviews, Media and Culture, Philosophy, Socialism 02/24/2024•Mises Wire •Roger McKinney Christianity Today magazine, founded by Billy Graham, chose Christopher Watkin’...
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Review of Kathryn Tanner: Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism An old professor told our class decades ago to believe nothing from the popular press about economics and only hal...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2024/01/there-is-something-wrong-with-economic.html
Most reviewers of the motion picture Killers of the Flower Moon distill just one lesson from the story: greed is deadly. The love of money leads to evil. But the real lesson should be of...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/11/killers-of-flower-moon-is-about.html
Paid family leave—meaning the government paying or forcing businesses to pay for one or more parents taking time off to spend with a newborn—seems like a slam dunk idea to the Christian Le...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/10/government-enforced-paid-family-leave.html
For decades, any article by Christians about the evils that afflict modern society have included consumerism. For example, A Gospel Coalition author wrote this: > “None of us is a c...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/10/christians-dont-suffer-from-consumerism.html
Most arguments for capitalism hinge on the consequences: capitalism enriches people while socialism impoverishes. But few Christians will take a class in economics so they will not care a...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/09/jesus-is-anarcho-capitalist.html
Recently, banks have failed, and the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates another 25 basis points, or 0.25%. Some analysts say banks are safe while others cry that the sky is falling. Wh...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/04/bank-failures-another-sign-of-evil-of.html
Last year, Congress increased the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 per child to $3,600 and eliminated the requirement that a parent be working to receive the credit, turning it into a welfare ...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/01/how-child-tax-credit-expansion-will.html
In 1849, Dr. Edmond Sears wrote a Christmas message for his congregation in Wayland, Massachusetts. Set to music, it became the beloved Christmas carol “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.”...
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The movie Devotion tells the story of Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in U.S. Navy history, and his friendship with Tom Hudner, who became the Navy's most celebrated wingmen. The fi...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/01/how-christianity-and-capitalism-lifted.html
With their threat to strike, railroad unions are holding a gun to the heads of American consumers to force railroads to pay employees more. Unions asked for fifteen paid sick days, but the...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/01/railroad-strike-shows-unions-violate.html
Recently, FTX, a digital coin trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, declared bankruptcy and shocked some people in the world of investing. The company collapsed from a valuation of $32 bi...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2023/01/ftxs-greed-corruption-isnt-capitalisms.html
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference was winding down in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, as I write this article. Speaking at the conference, President Joe Biden advertised that the ...
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Jesus warned his followers not to be consumed with daily cares in Matt 6:28-29, “And why are you anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil no...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/capitalism-liberated-women-from-toil.html
The official rate of inflation recently soared above 8% according to state statistics. Readers may have a gut feeling that prices have risen higher, and you may be right. According to Shadow Sta...
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The Christian left objects to inequality of incomes and wealth because they want justice, they say. In other words, people earning different amounts of income violates justice. The left makes u...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/social-justice-is-injustice.html
The Stock market, measured by the S&P 500, is down over 15% at the time of this writing, and is probably down more at the time of your reading. Should Christians care? They should. if they care...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/if-christians-care-about-poor-they-will.html
Jesus singled out children as subjects of special care and protection. He rebuked His disciples for not letting children come to Him and threatened millstones to those who cause littles ones to...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/bureaucrats-vs-babies-how-government.html
Roger Olson, Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology at Baylor University, recently published an essay with the title, “Why I Am a Socialist: Because I Am a Christian .” He added, “I do ...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/if-jesus-were-physically-here-today-hed.html
An unscientific survey of theologians over the past decade has shown that the dominant views are: Jesus only cared about the Kingdom of God and nothing about government or Jesus was a socialist...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/jesus-cared-about-government-and.html
Around 60% of abortions are done by single mothers living in poverty, so the aborting of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court has caused politicians to call for a pro-life economy. They seem to thi...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/romneys-family-security-act-is-not-pro.html
Can economics explain the left’s rage over the Supreme Court’s abortion of Roe v. Wade? It can, and the logical chain isn’t that long. But we must understand true Marxism, not the popular...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/socialists-love-abortion-because-they.html
An icon of the evangelical left, Ron Sider, went home to the Lord recently at the age of 82. Sider is most famous for his book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study published...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/will-death-of-icon-end-evangelical-left.html
Many Americans believe the President controls the economy, which is why exit polls after a presidential election have shown, for decades, that the most important issue on the minds of voters in...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/should-we-blame-biden-for-recession.html
Republicans have opposed President Biden’s debt cancellation for students who piled up tens of thousands of dollars in debt to get a degree. The left assumes many of the Republicans are Chris...
http://rdmckinney.blogspot.com/2022/11/no-biblical-basis-for-student-debt.html