“Obama, McCain, and Health Care Justice ”

by Kevin E. Schmiesing Ph.D. - August 27, 2008

Kevin Schmiesing looks at Republican and Democrat proposals for health care reform and is surprised to find that John McCain's approach may be more radical than that offered by Barack Obama. And, as Kevin reminds us, caring for the sick and most vulnerable in society is not a government monopoly.

“Ban the Bottle?”

by Noah Meek & Tom Sundaram - August 20, 2008

Why such a fuss over bottled water? City officials, and not a few religious activists, object to the empties going into landfills. Then there’s the moral assertion that water is a “free gift from God.” Tom Sundaram and Noah Meek explain why bottled water critics are all wet.

June 2008

• Rev. Sirico Delivers Krieble Lecture
• What Should Christians Think About Global Warming?
• Rev. Sirico Discusses Pope Benedict’s Visit to United States
• Repairing Health Care: Grace-Marie Turner
• Acton and You

Volume 18, Number 1 • Winter 2008

Featuring:

“Theology at Work: Faithful Living in the Marketplace -- An Interview with David Miller,” an interview with David W. Miller

David W. Miller is the executive director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale Divinity School, and asst. professor (adj) of business ethics at Yale School of Management. Miller brings an unusual "bilingual" perspective to the academic world, having also spent sixteen years in senior executive positions in international business and finance.

Miller received his Master of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. While studying there, he co-founded the Avodah Institute in 1999 and still serves as its president. Avodah's mission is to help leaders integrate the claims of their faith with the demands of their work. Miller is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Miller serves as an advisor to several corporate CEOs and senior executives on questions relating to faith and work. His book God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. Miller recently spoke with R&L managing editor Ray Nothstine.

Volume 11, Number 1 • Spring 2008

With this issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality, we introduce a new semi-regular feature section, the Status Quaestionis. Conceived as a complement to our Scholia, the Status Quaestionis features are intended to help us grasp in a more thorough and comprehensive way the state of the scholarly landscape with regard to the modern intersection between religion and economics. Whereas the Scholia are longer, generally treatise-length works located in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, the Status Quaestionis will typically be shorter, essay-length pieces from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The first installment of the Status Quaestionis will feature an essay by Sergey Bulgakov (1871–1944), a renowned and influential Russian Orthodox theologian. His essay included in this issue, "The National Economy and the Religious Personality," first published in 1909 and translated here by Krassen Stanchev, represents the first and in many ways most lasting Orthodox Christian response to the Weber thesis.

Also in this volume, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo considers "The Importance and Contemporary Relevance of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth." Marek Tracz-Tryniecki explores "Natural Law in Tocqueville’s Thought." Christopher Todd Meredith examines "The Ethical Basis for Taxation in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas." José Atilano Pena López and José Manuel Sánchez investigate "Smithian Perspective on the Markets of Beliefs: Public Policies and Religion." Surendra Arjoon discusses ethics in the corporate culture with "Slippery When Wet: The Real Risk in Business." Gregory Mellema expounds on "Professional Ethics and Complicity in Wrongdoing."