For a financial whiz, he’s a pretty good theologian too: Our pal, David Bahnsen, author of the acclaimed Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, was of late hanging with the pastors and believers at a conference on faith and work, talking about the virtue of labor, but also finding talk abounding on an emerging theme of a “parallel economy” — what happens when B-to-B gets baptized into Christian-to-Christian.
In a world that is defined by the interconnectedness of economies, transactions, and business-doings, David finds this trend/policy/stratagem (a.k.a. “freedom economy”) — one that is sectarian-intentional, urging Christians to engage in commerce exclusively with Christians — troubling, not so much by what has motivated it (a reaction to a culture that mandates woke cancelling), but by its amazing unreality, even impossibility. Dare he charge “delusion?” He does.
David expresses these concerns by urging old-fashioned honest thinking, and he does so with wisdom and gusto in an excellent piece of commentary at World. It’s must-reading, which can be done right here.