capitalism

In this essay, Paul Jaussen argues that discipleship is a valuable model for education, one which avoids the common traps of ideological or market-driven pedagogies.

An interview with Eugene McCarraher.

Be cruel in your erotic play: snap on handcuffs, neck-collars, and chains, lock pins and clips on nipples, administer meticulous floggings; or, be a slave for a night and, with your master’s help, mimic the ancient ‘art of unbearable sensations’, tremble with the most exquisite agonies, savor the disintegration and humiliation of the self in […]

Now to him who able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  –Ephesians 3:20, 21 Story and Imagination Now that the Disney Corporation […]

Ben Suriano interviews John Milbank on theology and capitalism.

Introduction: The fact that we need a better understanding of economics in relation to how the Christian faith encounters the world in which we live should come as no surprise. The traditional metrics of wealth and poverty have been found wanting and the current upheaval in relation to the ever-growing rift between the ‘haves’ and […]

TOJ: It’s a great honor for me to be able to interview you, so thank you very much. So I will dive in and throw out some questions. After growing up in an environment where you felt the realities of a racist, oppressive society, you decided to return to the South from California where you were […]

Money is everything, Alex said. I opened my mouth to disagree, but stopped. I looked directly at his face and saw that he meant what he said. He doesn’t have the luxury to think that money isn’t everything. Like most of the other one-billion people in China, his sole purpose is to get enough money […]

Like debris shoved around in the aftermath of the tsunami, my heart and mind have tried to stay afloat amidst the waves of grief and confusion that are drowning out joy in our world. One senior staff member from India, well acquainted with calamity and suffering said to me last week in Bangkok, “grief shrouds […]