A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Bible & Economics

Below is a collection of the essays and blog-posts that I've been publishing over at American Enterprise Institute's Values&Capitalism.com blog the past year.  bible1Individually, the pieces are snap-shots of various passages of Scripture or doctrines of my Protestant faith and Judeo-Christian values.  Collectively, they will comprise how it is that I ended up a free-market conservative (and ardent opponent of progressive liberalism).

I'm not telling you how to think, merely explaining the conclusions I've reached and how exactly I came to them.

I didn't make these things up.  God, His Word and human experience did; and they in turn made me.

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Why Am I Doing This Series, Anyway?  The Beginning (And All Roads Lead to Rome)

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Creation and Imago Dei

Michaelangelos-creation-of-Adam

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A Dominion Directive (Part 1)

A Dominion Directive (Part 2)

earthday

Show Me Your Vocations

for-your-vocation

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Sin: The Depravity of it All

adam_eve_snake

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From Babel to Babylon: The Problem With Centralized Power

tower-of-bable

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Israel Asks For a King (Part 1)

Israel Asks For a King (Part 2)

israel_demands_a_king

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The Year of Jubilee

harvesting1

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Proverbs: On Wealth and Such

Part 1Part 2

King-Solomon-Russian-icon-273x300

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If A Man Will Not Work, He Should Not Eat

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  1. A Beka Books has a high school level Economics textbook by Russell Kirk that is a great introduction to the field without being overly technical–wish all students took that course.

  2. There is definately a great deal to know about this issue.
    I love all the points you’ve made.


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The basic ideas, ideals, and values that generally define and characterize the central tenets of what today might be termed "modern conservative thought."

We believe that a proper understanding of history, economics, and theology leads to certain conclusions. Many of these are the same conclusions our Founding Fathers arrived at in constructing a "more perfect union."

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