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About Benj

I’m a native North Jerseyan, transplanted to Pennsylvania...lived and taught in Eastern Europe for six years…Old Testament professor, author, minister, musician, liturgist…husband to Corrie…father to Daniel and Elizabeth.

Environmentalism

Posted on 31 July 2008 by Benj

Walter Williams has an excellent column this week about the ways in which the environmental movement affects politics. I care about the environment–no one wants to live with dirty air and polluted water.  But there are always costs to environmental … Continue reading →

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Jer. 16:1-15

Posted on 30 July 2008 by Benj

On Jeremiah 16:1-15, Keil writes, “Yet we must not fail to be sure that the prospect held out of a future deliverance of Israel from the lands into which it is soon to be scattered, and of its restoration again to … Continue reading →

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Reader, Econ. Econ, meet Reader.

Posted on 30 July 2008 by Benj

Why do I love economics so much?  Economics is the study of human choices, not just financial decisions, but the cost-benefit analyses that go on in your mind every second of every day.  You are choosing to read this meandering muse, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Economics

Posted on 30 July 2008 by Benj

As we seek a biblical model of economics, we must first examine what is perhaps the most basic idea in economics: the tension between scarcity and insatiability. Scarcity is simply the truth that all physical resources are finite. Insatiability is … Continue reading →

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