Donald Trump is hoping to celebrate three resurrections on April 12, 2020. Here they are in order of how I believe the president has prioritized them: His own political future The American economy The resurrection of Jesus Trump knows that...
capitalism and Christianity
Is Capitalism Good for Us?
Here is a very interesting debate between Mary Hirschfeld and Eugene McCarraher at Villanova University. Hirscheld is the author of Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy. McCarraher is the author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the...
David Bentley Hart Reviews Eugene McCarraher’s *The Enchantments of Mammon*
And he loves it. Here is a taste of Hart‘s review of McCarraher‘s new book: The Enchantments of Mammon is a magnificent book. It is, before all else, a sheer marvel of patient scholarship, history on a grand scale and in...
Kate Bowler on Evangelical Women Celebrities
Duke Divinity School’s Kate Bowler keeps churning out books. Her latest is The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. Over at Christianity Today, Liberty University’s Karen Swallow Prior interviews Bowler about her new book. Here is a taste: Despite...
Was America Born Capitalist?
We are working hard to get Princeton University historian Daniel Rodgers on the podcast. He is the author of As a City Upon a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon. (He will be featured on the Author’s...
"Corporate Evangelicalism"
I recently finished reading Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity,and the Unmaking of the American Dream. I have been a fan of Lehmann’s writing for some time now. A former graduate student in history at the University of Rochester where he...
Has Free-Market Catholic Social Teaching Run Its Course?
Anthony Annett of the Earth Institute at Columbia University seems to think so. In a recent blog post at dotCommonweal titled “The Fall of the House of Neuhaus,” Annett offers a brief history of the way Neuhaus and his friends...
McMass
A group of entrepreneurs is trying to raise one million dollars to build a McDonald’s restaurant inside a church. They are calling the project “McMass.” Here is the plan: Churches in modern times suffer from a number of unique problems. […]