Category Archives: Economics in This Lesson

How Well Should Pastors Be Paid? Who Should Decide?

Posted on October 13, 2025 by RC

First, it’s not as easy question. In the open market people should be paid at the intersection of what they’re willing to work for and what someone is willing to pay them. You will never hear me complain either that … Continue reading →

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Money From Nothing and Your Checks for Free

Posted on October 10, 2025 by RC

I’m connected to royalty. Granted, it’s a rather thin point of union. In less than six degrees, though, through enough marriage links that there is no legal tie, I am connected with the king of the tropical island, Yap. Yap … Continue reading →

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Is the Trump administration assaulting free speech?

Posted on September 22, 2025 by RC

No. Along with a more nuanced no. But still no, fundamentally. The First Amendment to the US Constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of … Continue reading →

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What Is Labor Day Really All About? Busting Union Myths

Posted on September 1, 2025 by RC

We exercise a certain practicality about our holidays. The move to Mondays makes perfect sense to me. Trouble is, that practicality can lead us to lose sight of what we’re celebrating, because what we are honestly celebrating is a three … Continue reading →

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Tariffs and Inflation: And Never the Twain Do Meet

Posted on August 21, 2025 by RC

Economic pundits have been celebrating of late that thus far we haven’t seen a deep spike in inflation due to the imposition of tariffs on foreign goods sold in the US. In other news, thus far the lint in my … Continue reading →

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Discerning Why We Are So Greedy: Sinners Gonna Sin

Posted on July 3, 2025 by RC

We, not just they, but we are greedy because we’re people. The problem isn’t in the money. Which means, by the way, that one does not become more greedy than someone else by having more money than someone else. Greed … Continue reading →

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Big Con, Little Con, Con Con and Contra Con Con

Posted on June 12, 2025 by RC

My father’s mentor used to quip, “If you want to know what a neo- anything is, just take out the e.” Thus a neo-evangelical is no evangelical. The neo-orthodox know no orthodoxy. And neo-conservatives are no conservatives. We’ve known this … Continue reading →

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Blessed Are the Rich in Spirit: Grace Upon Grace

Posted on May 23, 2025 by RC

There is real poverty in our world, more than we’d care to admit. Jesus, after all, told us the poor would always be with us. But just as all Israel are not Israel, so all the poor are not truly … Continue reading →

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Three Economic Truisms that Just Aren’t So

Posted on May 13, 2025 by RC

A little knowledge may be dangerous, but not nearly so dangerous as a great deal of ignorance. Too often, when it comes to economics, we carry around just enough foolishness to make ourselves dangerous, believing “truths” that have no truth … Continue reading →

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Economics, Politics and Theology, Oh My!!

Posted on May 8, 2025 by RC

I know over the past several weeks I’ve been feeding my audience a steady diet of economics. I’ve written about tariffs and trade deficits, common goods and common grace. Such questions have been dominating our headlines. As it happens, I’ve … Continue reading →

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