The gadfly.

Some of my buddies up in New York City have started a magazine called “The Gadfly.” They're students at The King's College—where I myself spent two years—so some of the material on the website has to do with the internal politics of a small startup evangelical Christian college in Manhattan, but there should be some good stuff coming for general audiences in the theology, philosophy, politics, and economics categories. I should mention here that I will be contributing from a distance.

Try my friend John's article “Free Market Theology”:

Perfect freedom is not the exercise of choice, but the service of a holy God. For thousands of years such an assertion would be uncontroversial for Christians. Today, however, American evangelicalism has developed a hybrid strand of Christian political thought.

Evangelicals have bred a pseudo-theology revolving around the concept of “culture wars.” They seek to wed God to the state and intertwine the beauty of grace with the bureaucracy of the nation state. Certain political positions become an assumed part of orthodoxy. It seems as if these Christians think that belief in the market was adopted into Nicene dogma. Consequently, the language used to describe the market increasingly is applied to the divine.

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The market is an efficient way of allocating resources, but it is not an ethic. When we act as if morality and the market are interchangeable, we force ourselves into blind, sophistical defenses of pure exploitation. Christians may harness the power of the market to benefit society, but followers of Jesus must not allow the scales we use in the market place to weigh justice.

Also, for some reason, there's an array of fine shirts and sweatshirts. (Not my doing.)