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
May 21, 2008 Bringing Good out of Evil: Economic Justice in Myanmar
April 30, 2008 The Fourth Pillar of the 'New' Economy: 'Spend all you can.'
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

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