Posts by Jordan J. Ballor
June 05, 2020
I was a guest on the Working Man podcast this week, discussing the connections between the Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper and Pope Leo XIII. In 1891 both Leo and Kuyper published important documents providing Christian reflection on the “social question.” Continue Reading...
March 18, 2020
Why the economy needs a theology of the body
This article first appeared on March 17, 2020, in Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute, and was republished with permission.
The COVID-19 pandemic is catalyzing trends in the economy that have been incubating for some time. Continue Reading...
January 03, 2020
Star Wars and self-interest
Recent installments in the Star Wars universe directly raise the theme of self-interest, and specifically the formation or deformation of the self. These instances help us ask the important question, “Who puts the ‘self’ in self-interest?” Continue Reading...
December 19, 2019
Slavery, Shmi Skywalker, and Star Wars
December 11, 2019
An encyclical on China and the US?
December 06, 2019
The uneasy conscience of fair trade fundamentalism
November 13, 2019
Stranger Things on America: ‘It’s not rigged!’
October 31, 2019
Some reading for Reformation Day
October 22, 2019
Adam Smith and a life well-lived
October 21, 2019