Economic Justice
Wealth, debt, labor, and taxation as treated in scripture and in the founding documents' vision of the general welfare.
4 questions
- What Religious Teachings Say About Wealth InequalityEvery major religious tradition treats wealth as a serious moral concern and concentrated wealth as a particular danger — Jesus on the eye of the needle, the…
- Principles Behind the Student Loan Forgiveness DebateReligious traditions across the world support debt relief — and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teaching specifically endorse periodic structural debt…
- Workers' Rights in Religious and Constitutional TeachingThe protection of workers — particularly timely payment of wages and protection from exploitation — is one of the most consistent ethical teachings across…
- Taxation and the Common GoodReligious traditions converge on a clear answer: wealth carries communal obligations, and structured systems to fulfill those obligations are morally…