Religious groups are in danger of becoming the other of liberal democracies at exactly the moment when rapprochement between them seems vital to domestic and international stability. In this paper, I argue that liberal political discourse must make room for explicit appeals to religious reasons...

The Tea Party movement is a new social movement that has been billed by leaders and supporters as driven by fiscal conservatism and constitutional originalism. Although the movement is not officially aligned with a political party, its supporters are mostly Republicans and Republican-leaning...

Messages about women's rights are part of Evangelical and Fundamentalist attitudes towards law and politics. Evangelical and Fundamentalist women, as well as men proclaim these positions about both domestic gender rights concerns and women's rights abroad. Gender issues are often part of larger...

At one time, the prevailing view amongst Christian clergy in Britain would have been sympathetic towards the spontaneous order of the market economy and not sympathetic towards socialism. The spontaneous order, would, of course, have included the rich tapestry of philanthropic organisations and...

The reality of the market economy is not an economy in which Christian values are generally evident. Although there are many prominent Christian capitalist writers, the real world is a world of rather more materialistic values. It does not have to be like that. It is possible for people to take...

Although the term “bankruptcy” is nowhere to be found in the Bible, debt and the consequences of default are a major theme both in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament. In Israel, as in the ancient Near East generally, a debtor who defaulted on his obligations was often sold into...