Tag: economics
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Wondering, Not Predicting
Reading a book about economics this morning, I came across this striking paragraph: Some economic historians claim that feudalism was ended by the Black Death, a pandemic that killed up to a third of the population of Europe and Asia in the 1340s. It killed so many labourers that huge tracts of land lay deserted, […]
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The sermon today was about the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31. Our pastor pointed out that the rich man and Lazarus seem to have no social interaction at all in the story, although they are in close proximity. The rich man doesn’t really even see Lazarus during their simultaneous lifetimes. He […]
Matters of Interpretation 