“The questions that really began to stand out to me were questions about wealth and poverty, but I also started digging deeply into environmental questions. I started to see that environmental questions were an area where economics on its own couldn’t guide us to the set of commitments and values that I thought were obvious – but theology could. I started turning to Christian theology for a story about why the world matters, why humanity matters… that’s why the two started to come together for me.”
Steve McMullen is a professor of economics at Hope College in the US, executive editor of the journal Faith & Economics, host of the podcast Faithful Economy, fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and associate fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge UK.
He joined John Payne for a discussion:
Please put the next two Joy in Enough talks in your diary, as we hear from Cat Jenkins on offshore finance on January 17th. Helen Stanton has the theme Joy in a time of crisis on February 21st.
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