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Visit the front line of the fight against the politicization and ideological capture of the investing industry, frequently under the name of ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance.

It's routine in discussions about economics from Christian critics of the market system to fling James 1:1 at defenders of capitalism. I wish they would keep reading the whole book.

What about charity? Is there really nothing between socialism and ruthlessness oppression of the poor?

Projections show the US falling into the hole of not just borrowing to buy goods and services, but also borrowing to pay the interest on past borrowing.

This should not merely be a matter of Christians being disproportionately represented among the banned and marginalized voices. If all people are made in the image and likeness of God, than a lack of respect for diversity of opinion is an assault on human dignity and by extension on God Himself.

"If you are a Christian investor who's not paying attention, your money is actually being weaponized against you all the time."

"Maybe we shouldn't pay Robin DiAngelo 300,000 dollars next quarter to fly in to tell all of our white employees they’re oppressors, and all of our black employees that they're oppressed."

"If someone described themselves as a Christian socialist to me that sounds very similar to describing themselves as a Christian Baal worshipper. Maybe it's not quite Baal, but something like that. It's almost a contradiction in terms."

The poor weren't an abstraction to Jesus, nor a grift, but a community -- and a poor town was the last place on which his feet stood on earth.

He didn't care about the poor, but was a thief who embezzled from the common purse which he held on behalf of the disciples. In this, Judas is a perfect stand-in for the Judean elite with which he is aligned.