Andrew Blosser (Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago) has worked as a minister, advocate for Chicago’s homeless community, and teaching assistant professor in the department of theology at Marquette University. His research focuses on the intersection of theology and economic issues such as housing policy. He is the author of The Ethics of Doing Nothing: Rest, Rituals, and the Modern World (Orbis Books, 2023), as well as articles in scholarly and popular journals.
The bold claim of 1 Timothy 6:10 that “the love of money is a root of all evils” is the embarrassing relative in a family of famous biblical passages. Many ministers and theologians either pretend this passage does not exist or find innovative ways of explaining it away. Some force the awkward translation “all sorts […]
