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Category Archives: Religion Relating to Market

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A means to a home: Islamic co-ops create happy homecomings — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle

In general, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the market accommodating itself to a certain group of people with certain religious convictions; that’s niche marketing at its best, I think. What is wrong here is when those who strictly speaking are not paying mortgage interest still want to receive a mortgage interest tax deduction, [...]
Posted 02 November 2006 § Government Relating to Market § Market Relating to Religion § Religion Invading Government ‡ Comments (0) °

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Narrow focus draws ‘PG’ rating for Baptist-backed film – Terry Mattingly, Scripps Howard News Service

This movie was rated “PG” for “Promotes God”. The MPAA wants to keep innocent little kids from being accidentally converted to Christianity, I guess. They might want to obey their parents, love their brothers and sisters and respect their neighbors, but who wants that, really?
Posted 07 June 2006 § Neighbor Checking Market § Neighbor Invading Religion § Neighbor Relating to Family § Religion Relating to Neighbor ‡ Comments (0) °

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Profits for the Glory of God.

Don McLaurin, an elder at my church, recently spoke about the Realm of the Market. It was my cup of tea, because he spoke about how the Market is not inherently evil, but that it is a valid realm of Christ’s authority in itself and that it can be redeemed for Christ [10MB mp3 file]…
Posted 10 December 2005 § Market Redeemed ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

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This is our Victory over the World.

In the latest issue of WORLD Magazine, Marvin Olasky interviews Rodney Stark about his latest book, which is called “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success“…
Posted 27 November 2005 § Government Redeemed § Market Redeemed § Nature Redeemed § Religion Relating to Government § Religion Relating to Nature § Religion Relating to Self § Self Redeemed ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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Automatic Tithing.

Here’s an article about how some churches arrange to have their members’ tithes and offerings deducted automatically from their checking account. Here’s a discussion about it on Worldmagblog…
Posted 18 November 2005 § Market Relating to Religion § Self Relating to Religion ‡ Comments (0) °

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Is the Church being used?

Here is a discussion on a blog called Out of Ur about whether or not the church is being courted or merely used to market the Chronicles of Narnia movie…
Posted 09 November 2005 § Market Invading Religion § Market Relating to Religion ‡ Comments (1) °