If the cattle on a thousand hills are God’s (Ps. 50:10), how can I brand them as “mine”? In other words, how can the Bible teach stewardship and...
Was Jesus a socialist or capitalist? The Bible essentially says, “Neither.” Yet, we can’t leave these ideas unexamined. Christians are called by God to love our neighbor well....
How are prices set in our economy, and are such prices legitimate, or just—especially in times of crisis, like a hurricane? The theory of just prices is considered...
Is capitalism immoral? Answering this question from a Christian perspective requires returning to the Bible, taking its economic principles that we know by definition are moral, and comparing...
The Bible upholds the importance of owning and being able to use private property. It is especially wrong to steal or to covet someone else’s property. Strictly speaking,...
In his Elements of Moral Science, published in 1835, Baptist minister and college president Francis Wayland cogently identified the positive link between private property and human flourishing. He...
How do well-enforced property rights affect the poor? In a video produced by the International Justice Mission, one Ugandan woman explains, In this part of the country, land...
In his groundbreaking book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto says that private property rights...
Why have societies like the Soviet Union or present-day Zimbabwe led to so much human suffering? One foundational reason for the collapse of so many of these countries...
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