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New attitudes toward an old problem
Many of us have a misguided understanding of how to be compassionate to those in poverty.Sustaining people and planet: The moral challenge of the twenty-first century
We are by nature creators who can transform the earth’s natural resources to better sustain life, not merely consumers doomed to deplete the earth’s natural resources.Another look at compassion and welfare
An important question needs to be raised: Is government welfare truly compassionate? Are the human needs of the people really served with governmental handouts?Duties of the consumer
he party most responsible for Third World workers receiving low wages may be the person in the mirror: the consumer.Does a business corporation have a responsibility to society?
- In 1946, Congress enacted changes in the tax code that permitted publicly held business corporations to deduct charitable donations in amounts up to five percent of their federal taxable
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Free Religion
It is worth remembering what George Washington said in his farewell address about religion: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports …. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.Money and morality: The Christian moral tradition and the best monetary regime
Our current monetary policy leaves much to be desired when evaluated against the Christian moral tradition and the thought of several Christian historical figures.A primer for love: Personalist ethics
Charity, by embracing all the virtues, is the way to happiness.Latin America imprisoned in liberation theology
Unlike its first ascendancy in the 1980s, this time redistribution, not revolution, is the watchword.Categorical imperatives impair Christianity in culture
Christian thinkers no longer speak about culture and politics in terms of the more enduring principles of moral virtue, law, and the common good but now focus on social justice, understood as solely the immediate, material rights and dignity of the human person.Liberty legitimately constrained
We devote Religion & Liberty to recognizing and discussing the delta that forms when faith, religion, liberty, economics, and culture come together.The possibility of economic and religious liberties in postwar Iraq
The system of democratic capitalism, not socialism, responds to the natural human aspiration to exercise freedom.