Feb 04 2021
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Politics and Religion at the Dinner Table Part VI

(Image: George Leile. First American Missionary. Pencil drawing by Janine Bessenecker.) The Corporate-Capitalist Non-Profit Expanded and adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com The Western Hemisphere in the late eighteenth century was convulsing. A slave revolt in Haiti plunged that…

Jan 22 2021
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Politics and Religion at the Dinner Table Part V

Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com From Prophets to Profits Where did we get the conviction that if we just had more money we could begin a new poverty alleviation program or expand our church or nonprofit? As Protestantism…

Dec 31 2020
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Politics and Religion at the Dinner Table Part III

The Protestant – Capitalist Fusion Adapted from Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker. Copyright (c) 2014 by Scott A. Bessenecker. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com While still in her mid-twenties, Queen Elizabeth had inherited a nearly bankrupt country and a seriously inferior military. She turned to a group of swashbuckling men of valor…