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Jordan Ballor Mar 3, 2016 Essay The Rule of Law, The Way of Love

Church Discipline as a Public Good

What ancient Pharisees and modern Jezebels get right and wrong about discipline.

Jordan Ballor Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Trade and Mutual Aid

There is no system that is incorruptible, but at its best, free trade orients us toward the good of others.

Jordan Ballor Jul 31, 2012 Uncategorized

Business and the Development of Christian Social Thought

All spheres of life, including business, are accountable to God . . . To think and act otherwise is to split apart the human person in ways that denigrate rather than promote human dignity and flourishing.

Jordan Ballor Jul 23, 2012 Uncategorized

Batman from Below

Finding social solidarity in Gotham City.

Jordan Ballor Jun 8, 2012 Uncategorized

Get Your Hands Dirty: The Vocational Theology of “Luther”

There is little overt religiosity in Luther, but in the vicarious representative action of John Luther on behalf of others, we see a broken and fragmentary expression of common grace, God’s preserving work in the world.

Jordan Ballor Feb 10, 2012 Uncategorized

Small is Beautiful (Except When it Isn’t)

Even the most dedicated advocates of communitarian conservative values at some level realize that the flourishing they experience is, to a great extent, made possible by global markets.

Jordan Ballor Sep 1, 2011 Essay The good society

Reforming Economics: Capitalism and Its Discontents

The biggest losers of the financial crisis.

Jordan Ballor May 20, 2011 Uncategorized

War of the Worldviews

Dambisa Moyo’s How the West was Lost tries to analyze the causes of the American “Great Recession” and describe possible futures for the global economy, but ultimately fails to provide a compelling diagnosis and prognosis.

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