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A Time for Lament
By Brett Carey “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” In my childhood, lyrics such as these were one of the many cultural voices telling me, explicitly or implicitly, that Christmas was all about joy. My early memories of Christmas are rose-colored recollections of me and my siblings waking up to presents underneath our…
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Toward a Christian Understanding of Self-Interest
by Justin Dodds “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest” (Smith 27). These words from Adam Smith in his 1776 classic, The Wealth of Nations, represent one of the most fundamental assumptions of the study…
