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Turkish Shoe Shine: An Illustration of the Superiority of the Free Market to Socialism

Mention the country of Turkey and most people think of exotic carpets and rugs, crusader castles and the Blue Mosque, Ottoman potentates, and the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul,

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The Politics of Nice

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. Niceness presents itself as benevolence, but is often merely an evasion of hard decisions that the realities of human nature require. And

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Memorial: A Meditation on Advent

This Sunday marks the second Sunday of the Advent season. Though historically neglected by many evangelicals, Advent has made a resurgence in recent years. To that end, we are going

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World Philosophy Day: In Memoriam

Last Friday and Saturday the world celebrated World Philosophy day.  Where were you? Were you trapped in a Sartean Hell with No Exit and the only windows being the eyes of your tortured inmates? Or were you finding your intial […]

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APEC 2008

Eyes are on Peru this week, and this time they aren’t the ever-watchful eyes of NGOs monitoring fair and just elections, nor are they the eyes of the bulldog military that are constantly on guard against drug trafficking. Peru is […]

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Green Markets, Evangelicals, and the Poor

One issue that has received less and less attention in the run-up to November 4th, and especially since the Economic Crisis of 2008, is environmental stewardship and global warming.

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Marx, Money, and the Market's Future

The Communist Manifesto, that little piece of literature so dog-eared and marked by nearly every college grad, is full of statements that have become particularly interesting in light of

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Antiprenneurs: How Free-Market Economies Can Save the World (or maybe just the rainforest)

Capitalism is not a system invented by greedy people to get more money. It is not the primary cause of the “economic crisis” looming large in the minds and T.V. sets of most Americans today. It is not the reason […]

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Palin-mania, Texas-style

The thing about Palin-mania is that it's just so much fun. Sure, it might be a bit silly and less than "mature" (said with a

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Value-adds and American Ingenuity

“Everyone has to focus on what exactly is their value-add…We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is at the cutting edge of that change [like America], it is hard […]

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...whew, what a ride it has all been.

Dear readers, friends, and enemies: My sincere apologies for taking such a vacation from contributing to the output of Mere Orthodoxy...it seems that the military and those stars that

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In Memory

America, and the world, experienced a watershed event seven years ago.  My life certainly changed as my military committment “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic” suddenly took on […]