Economics

Come all ye faithful, celebrate black Friday

by Autumn Brown 6 December 2011

Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday for me. Each year, I come together with family and we show our gratitude for life, for health, for the food in our bellies and the heat in our homes, by gorging ourselves on a lavish dinner, laughing and talking together. The story many of us were told growing up [...]

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On Property

by AJ Smith 21 June 2011

Many USAmerican Evangelical Christians take pride in the idea that the United States was founded on the ethics, principles, and philosophies of Jesus Christ. However palatable this idea may be, we simply do not live in a Christian nation. For how could a nation ever be considered “Christian”? Someone is only Christian inasmuch as they [...]

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Iconocast Episode 28: Jonathan Moyer

by the Iconocast Collective 12 May 2011

In this episode, Joanna and Mark interview Jonathan Moyer, co-founder of the Groupee.
The Groupee system is an alternative medium of exchange created by a community of Mennonites in Denver, Colorado for the broader church. The Groupee is a wooden token that is exchangeable for the time, labor and materials of other members of the community [...]

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Scared of Scarcity

by Jocelyn Perry 23 February 2011

With the recent uprising in Egypt and the current protests in Wisconsin, the playbook for “struggle” is being tested. The paradigm of institutionalized oppression is being challenged with direct-action based on peaceful resistance. We as people of faith also must continue challenging the structures that keep us from growing into the “Body of [...]

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Sing We A Song of High Revolt!

by Keith Hebden 13 December 2010

At Advent we prepare for Jesus return, for the coming of the Kin-dom of God. The song of Mary—the Magnificat—can help us prepare spiritually for this season because with it we echo Mary’s longing for a new and just re-ordering of society. Like Mary, we have no real idea of what that might mean. Only [...]

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The Meaning of “Mine” and “Not Mine” in the Early Church

by Boyd Collins 1 November 2010

“French riot police tear-gassed workers trying to block a fuel depot and broke up a picket at a key refinery serving Paris on Friday, hours before the Senate votes on fiercely-contested pension reforms.” 1
Why are the French rioting? Many of the governments of Europe now demand that severe austerity measures be imposed on public expenditures [...]

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On Distributism Part 2: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Distributism

by Teka Childress 27 October 2010

Editor’s Note: This article is the follow up to On Distributism Part 1: Distributism Made Ridiculously Simple, by Jenny Truax. In this article, Teka Childress talks to some folks who have done a great deal of research into the possibilities of distributism.
We thought it would be helpful to deal with some questions that people might have about [...]

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On Distributism Part 1: Distributism Made Ridiculously Simple

by Jenny Truax 25 October 2010

Our economy is in a crisis, so what’s a well-meaning reader to do? Is there any alternative to this capitalist monster of sub-prime lending, rampant unemployment, and bursting housing bubbles? We seek short term fixes in tax relief and corporate bailouts, but there must be a better way for us to live. The Catholic Worker [...]

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Early Christian Ecclesiology and “The Property Question” [part 3]

by Andy Alexis-Baker 11 October 2010

While some early Christians worshiped in private homes and others in apartments, at the edges of the empire we find glimpses of yet another place of worship which bears upon property and peacemaking. This glimpse reaches back into the Bible itself. For, once there were no church buildings. People normally worshiped out doors. In the [...]

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Iconocast Episode 10: An Interview with Richard Horsley

by the Iconocast Collective 8 July 2010

In this episode of the Iconocast, co-hosts Joanna and Mark interview Richard Horsley, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts. He is a prolific author with twenty New Testament studies to his credit. He has edited or authored such words as In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance, Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder, and most recently, Covenant Economics: A Biblical Vision of Justice for All.

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