Marcus Peter

Dr. Marcus Peter is director of theology for Ave Maria Radio, radio host of the daily international EWTN drive-time program Ave Maria in the Afternoon, TV host of Unveiling the Covenants, and other EWTN TV shows in production. In addition, he is a prolific author, biblical theologian, culture commentator, and international speaker. Follow his work at marcusbpeter.com.

Posts by Marcus Peter

March 10, 2026

How Sabbath Laws Reveal the Moral Logic of Markets

Modern arguments about wealth and inequality often presuppose that Scripture offers little guidance beyond a general call to generosity, after which technocrats may improvise distribution schemes according to political fashion. Consequently, biblical economics becomes a set of pious slogans rather than a coherent moral vision. Continue Reading...
February 10, 2026

We Can’t Afford to Ditch the Rich

Why Democracy Needs the Rich by John O. McGinnis arrives at a moment when public discourse treats wealth less as a social fact and more as a moral pathology. Consequently, McGinnis writes into an atmosphere thick with slogans, suspicion, and ritual denunciation. Continue Reading...
December 04, 2025

The Economics of the Sacred: Politics as a Covenant Exercise

The lie that religion has no bearing on politics has yielded the kind of politics we have now: managerial, sterile, and devoid of moral conviction. The idea that political office could be a covenantal trust or that economic policy might have covenantal implications would strike most technocrats as medieval sentimentality; yet, the biblical worldview insists that public life is precisely where covenants are lived or broken. Continue Reading...
September 18, 2025

Subsidiarity, Not Supranationalism

There is a deeply misguided belief that the road to justice lies in the consolidation of authority into ever-larger international institutions, particularly in the post-Christian landscape of global governance and political power. Continue Reading...