Staff Profile: Jordan Ballor

Research Fellow and Executive Editor, Journal of Markets & Morality
jballor@acton.org
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Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol., University of Zurich) is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He is author of Get Your Hands Dirty: Essays on Christian Social Thought (and Action) (Wipf & Stock, 2013), Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012), and Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness (Christian's Library Press, 2010). He is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research and a doctoral candidate in historical and moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.

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Commentary by this author
January 02, 2008 The Fiscal Responsibility of Mall Rats and Bureaucrats
December 26, 2007 The Truth about Tithing
December 05, 2007 Farm Subsidies: Sustaining Dependency
September 12, 2007 Democracy in Iraq
March 14, 2007 Evangelical Environmentalism's Moral Imperative
February 14, 2007 A Lottery Sell-Off is a Sell-Out
January 31, 2007 Material Goods and The Pursuit of Happyness
December 27, 2006 Recidivism and Reform: Competing Views of the State's Role in Prison
August 16, 2006 The Minimum Wage: A Denial of Freedom and Duty
July 19, 2006 Transcendence and Obsolescence: The Responsible Stewardship of Oil
June 28, 2006 Anti-Christ Superman: The Superhero and the Suffering Servant
June 14, 2006 The Ties that Bind: Cabled Christianity
April 19, 2006 Cashing in on Carbon Credits
March 22, 2006 The North American Church and Global Stewardship
March 15, 2006 A Golden Opportunity for 'The Silver Ring Thing'
February 15, 2006 Stewardship and Economics: Two Sides of the Same Coin
December 14, 2005 Would C.S. Lewis Have Risked a Disney 'Nightmare'?
December 07, 2005 The State of Flux
November 02, 2005 Compassion -- A Uniquely Human Trait
September 07, 2005 Pascal's Blunder: Miscalculating the Threat of Global Warming
July 06, 2005 Heroes of the Half-Measure: Christian Advocates for Government Charity
June 29, 2005 Our Slap-Happy Slide into Techno-Violence
May 25, 2005 Of Mice and Men: What it Means to be Human
May 11, 2005 The Flawed Fast Food Tax
May 04, 2005 Civic Groups Remain Relevant

International articles by this author
January 18, 2013 La Moral Mundana de Los Miserables
January 02, 2013 Esperanzas y Temores
December 03, 2012 Sacrificio e Interés Propio
September 20, 2012 Mitt Romney y el Trabajo Manual
May 29, 2012 Comunidad Contagiosa
April 17, 2012 Juegos del Hambre, la Película
December 05, 2011 Trabajo: Maldición y Gracia
July 19, 2011 Caridad como Commodity
August 09, 2010 适当理解格里菲斯的“利己“