Posts by Dylan Pahman
October 15, 2021
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has come under criticism for extending first-class delivery times as part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan to revitalize the agency. According to Tyler Powell and David Wessel at Brookings, “The USPS has operated at a loss since 2007.”
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September 02, 2021
“[A]t 12 O’clock … our country gained its full independence, praise and gratitude be to God.”
Who said it?
An American revolutionary on Sept. 3, 1783, at the signing of the Treaty of Paris, perhaps?
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August 11, 2021
On October 8, 2021, in-person at the Acton Building in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Acton Institute will host its First Annual Academic Colloquium, sponsored by its
Journal of Markets & Morality.
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July 28, 2021
The newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality (Volume 24, Number 1) has been released in print and online at our website.
In my editorial for the issue, I offer a preview of its contents:
To use popular terminology, through reflecting on the “known unknown”—the hour of our deaths, the return of Jesus Christ—we fortify ourselves for the “unknown unknowns” of our ever-changing world.
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June 17, 2021
Tobit is one of the lesser-known books of the Bible, in no small part because Protestant Bibles since the 19th century commonly omit it. But any Christian, Protestant or otherwise, would benefit from Tobit’s biblical theology of work.
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June 02, 2021
In our era of hyper-partisanship, often we think of political divides in simple terms of Republicans versus Democrats, or progressives versus conservatives. Nevertheless, even today there are some divides that cut across party lines.
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March 09, 2021
In its first show for the Disney+ streaming service, comic giant Marvel explores in the hit series
Wandavision a depth of storytelling that reaches beyond the stereotypical good-versus-evil battle of so many superhero tales.
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February 11, 2021
At
Every Thought Captive, a blog of Ancient Faith Ministries, I’ve been writing a series on Orthodox Christianity and modern Christian social thought.
In my first essay, I explore the question, “What is modern Christian social thought?”
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January 22, 2021
The newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 23, no. 2 (2020), has been released. This issue’s theme commemorates the centennial of Abraham Kuyper’s death in 1920.
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September 25, 2020
After some delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the newest issue of the
Journal of Markets & Morality is live on our website here. Print issues should be in the mail to subscribers sometime in the next few weeks.
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