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Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedEconomics and BusinesshealthJournalJournal 3

How to Value Caring Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Immediately before Jesus institutes the sacrament of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he kneels before his disciples to wash their feet. Peter objects to being served by his Lord, finding it improper, but Jesus tells him that, “Unless I […]

Eric MillerFeaturedEducationEconomics and Business

The Market Made Me Do It: The Scandal of the Evangelical College - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind turned twenty-five last year. If we know a classic by its ability to speak across eras, one single event from this past summer is enough to assure everyone of the continuing tragic […]

Ben ChristensonFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation

Waiting Tables as Soul Craft - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

During college, I became convinced I would become a consultant. I wasn’t pre-Med and didn’t want to join the Peace Corps, so this seemed to be the best (and only other respectable) option. I listened with childlike wonder as consulting […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedEthicsEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

A Theology of Money - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Among the many sayings of Jesus that have echoed down through the ages, few have continued to sound so loudly or uncomfortably in our ears as his warning, “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” But this does not keep […]

Rhys LavertyWorkChurchEconomics and Business

Why Pastors Should Get a Family Wage

What is an appropriate wage for pastors? Rhys Laverty makes the case for a wage sufficient to support not just an individual, but a household.

Brad LittlejohnEconomics and BusinessCurrent PoliticsBook Reviews

The Tyranny of Seeing Only Power

Sohrab Ahmari's 'Tyranny Inc' is a welcome corrective to some false ideas on the right, but it's cure may be as bad as the disease it diagnoses.

Drake OsbornWorkEconomics and BusinessFormation

The Ends of Work

Rest is not a reprieve from work, but rather is one part of a fruitful human life, existing peaceably next to work.

Rhys LavertyFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business

The World that Money Makes Go Round - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Stick man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three.” So begins Stick Man—my son’s favourite bedtime story. Parents of a certain age will know it well. Julia Donaldson (of The Gruffalo fame) spins a lovely […]

Colin RedemerFeaturedEconomics and Business

The Act of Love That Preserves All Other Acts of Love - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We are told that shortly a great many jobs will cross the event horizon of the techno-singularity, and thus will, like a ship passing over the actual horizon, disappear — probably forever. Mostly we think about the jobs of burger […]

Colin RedemerFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent PoliticsJournalJournal 3

Unions are Dead; Long Live Unions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Oren Cass’s book The Once and Future Worker is among the most important in living memory on the subject of labor from the conservative perspective. He instinctively gets that there is a pre-economic political relationship in which all economic activity […]

Chris KrychoFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormationJournalJournal 3

The Great Unmooring - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Richard Sennett. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. New York: WW Norton, 2000. 176pp, $15.99. Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from […]

Charlie ClarkFeaturedEthicsEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

Good Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We hunted for steel along flat-bottom train rails—glass blanketing the gravel track bed like chicken feed, jimson weed between creosote-steeped timbers— picked over buckled trailers and garbage stacks: cracked pump heads, mower blades, band saws rusted mid-cut. The clang of […]