http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com Christianity and Economics Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:19:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:28:25 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1219
The European Court of Human Rights decided in favor of a parent who claimed crucifixes on display in public schools in Italy, that’s Italy mind you, interfered with her right to raise her child according to the values she believes in.  There are crosses on church steeples in the visible skylines of one or more [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/11/06/pumpkins-1-crucifixes-0/feed/ 5 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/04/04/apee-in-guatemala/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/04/04/apee-in-guatemala/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:30:54 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=1008
I’m in Guatemala City for the Association of Private Enterprise Education’s (APEE) annual conference. Special thanks to Joe Keckeissen’s decade-long persistence in asking that APEE hold its conference in Guatemala in cooperation with the Universidad Francisco Marroquin.  Persistence pays off. See Professor Keckeissen’s guest post on the financial crisis here. Guatemala ended its 36-year long civil war in [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2009/04/04/apee-in-guatemala/feed/ 0 http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/11/01/religious-freedom/ http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/11/01/religious-freedom/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:15:08 +0000 Stephen J. Haessler http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/?p=326
Happy Feast of All Saints! Thanks Lord for all our wonderful saints; so many sign posts, all pointing to Jesus. I just returned from an incredible one-day symposium called Reflections on Religious Liberty at Princeton University sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute with funding from the Templeton Foundation.  The speakers were Charles Harper, Robert George, Philip Hamburger, [...]]]> http://www.apostlesandmarkets.com/2008/11/01/religious-freedom/feed/ 0