Category: The Lead

The Economic Consequences of the Protestant Reformation

While Protestant reformers aimed to elevate the role of religion, we find that the Reformation produced rapid economic secularization. The interaction between religious competition and political economy explains the shift in investments in human and fixed capital away from the religious sector.

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Faith and the White House: Who has access?

“Limited” – “practically non-existent” – “frozen out” – this is non-Christian-evangelical faith leaders are describing their access to the White House, in contrast with the communication lines that previous presidents, Republican and Democrat, have kept open.

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We faithful few?

In a neat synchronicity, three different voices across the internet spoke to the intersection of past and future of the Episcopal Church, largely lamenting a sense of something lost but also looking hopefully at the potential of a new beginning.

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Time (Lords) for gender equality

The Doctor is an alien Time Lord whose sacrificial love for the human race and the planet earth has been demonstrated repeatedly over the course of the show’s more than fifty years.

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