Staff Profile: Jordan Ballor

Research Fellow and Executive Editor, Journal of Markets & Morality
Department: 
Research

Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol. des., 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 Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness (Christian's Library Press, 2010). He is also a visiting professor of business and social ethics at Kuyper College and a doctoral candidate in in historical and moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Commentary by this author

January 11, 2012 Ministers of Common Grace
December 28, 2011 Food Fights and Free Enterprise
November 23, 2011 Blue Laws and Black Friday
November 09, 2011 Work, the Curse, and Common Grace
September 07, 2011 Work and Prayer: Of Coins, Sheep, and Men
July 13, 2011 Commodifying Compassion
May 25, 2011 Little Plots of Liberty: From Garden to City and Back Again
April 13, 2011 Do Less with Less: What the History of Federal Debt and Tax Leverage Teaches
March 30, 2011 Debt and the Birth Dearth
March 09, 2011 Back to Budget Basics
February 16, 2011 Local Churches Hard Hit as Recession Spreads
January 19, 2011 The Sheep and the Goats: Work and Service to Others
December 15, 2010 Christian Giving Begins with the Local Church
November 17, 2010 The Legalism of Political Christianity
November 03, 2010 ‘A’ for Austerity: The New Scarlet Letter
September 15, 2010 A Lesson from Michigan: Time to End Crony Unionism
September 01, 2010 Work and the Two Great Love Commandments
July 28, 2010 Lutheran World Federation Misses the Mark on Work and Wealth
June 15, 2010 Unity or Unanimity at Reformed Council?
May 18, 2010 Missing the Boat on the Tea Parties
March 29, 2010 The Science of Stewardship: Sin, Sustainability, and GM Foods
March 15, 2010 What Griffiths Said: Self-Interest, Rightly Understood
February 23, 2010 Obama’s Nuclear Promise: Too Little, But Not Too Late
January 12, 2010 From the Lead Frying Pan into the Toxic Fire
September 15, 2009 Civilizing Discourse on the Public Option

Journal of Markets & Morality articles by this author

Volume 14, Number 2 Review of "Reformed Mission in an Age of World Christianity: Ideas for the Twenty-First Century" edited by Shirley J. Roels Fall 2011
Volume 14, Number 2 Modern Christian Social Thought Fall 2011
Volume 14, Number 1 Intergenerational Ethics and Economics Spring 2011
Volume 13, Number 2 Printed Source and Digital Resource in Economics and Theology Fall 2010
Volume 11, Number 2 Introduction: Wolfgang Musculus on Christian Righteousness, Oaths, and Usury Fall 2008
Volume 11, Number 1 The State of the Question in Religion and Economics Spring 2008
Volume 12, Number 2 A Legacy of Stewardship Fall 2009
Volume 8, Number 1 Review of "Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence" by Stanley Hauerwas Spring 2005
Volume 7, Number 2 Review of "Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1-3: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 3" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; edited by John W. De Gruchy; translated by Douglas Stephen Bax Fall 2004