Why Giving 10% Isn’t Enough from Crossway on Vimeo.

It’s my year to hawk books! No shame in that, though – books are an essential part of natural and supernatural life.

I’ve got a new book coming out that provides an accessible and useful introduction to the history of Christian thinking about economics – Economics: A Student’s Guide. Today Crossway releases the first of a series of short videos that give you a taste of what’s in the book. My favorite moment from this video:

Not long ago, I was in a church in which the pastor said, “You should give money to the church because God wants you to use some of your money for his purposes.” I sat there just dumbfounded that a pastor in a pulpit would say God wants you to use some of your money for his purposes. I shared that with an ethics professor friend of mine and I asked, “What does one say?” and he said, “Rend your garment.” So I wish I could go back and just stand up in the pew and rend my garment in outrage at this limited view of what we’re made for.

More to come!

More ambitious readers may be interested in my other new book on economics this year, coauthored with Victor Claar: The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We’re All Dead from Palgrave Macmillan. It’s a deep dive into the moral worldview that has predominated in mainstream economics – with big implications for our economies and cultures – since the invention of macroeconomics in the Keynesian Revolution.