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Economics

Capitalism and Progress

In two extensive volumes Spengler expounded the well-known thesis that the law of birth, maturity, and death applies not only to plants and animals but holds equally for civilizations.

Christ and Consumerism

Relentless consumerism characterizes the First World today. If Jesus is right that we cannot serve both God and mammon (Luke 16:13), it follows that Jesus’ followers today simply must examine their priorities in life lest we unwittingly take on the spirit of our age.

Stones for Bread: The Social Gospel and its Contemporary Legacy

Often we face the dilemma of having to choose between the privatism of those who do not see why they should apply their faith to social and political questions and the radical views of others who are certain they ought to apply faith to society in socialistic ways. Harry Antonides finds fault with both these perspectives.

Multinationals and the Peaceable Kingdom

For anyone who has ever taken part in the battle to preserve something of a meaningful social structure in Canada, who has tried to live up to the promise of our history, there is no lack of awareness of how great the odds are against winning such a battle.

Labour of Love: Essays on Work

This collection of essays is a sequel to A Christian Union in Labour’s Wasteland published by Wedge in 1978, and considers the issue of labour in the wider context of western society.

A Review of Andrew Sandlin’s “Failed Church”

Church 2022 looks significantly different from its recent past iterations, though even then signs of impending infection were not absent. Paul Aurich provides a review of the new book Failed Church by the Center for Cultural Leadership.