In Exodus Chapter 16, we find the Children of Israel wandering through the “Seen” desert, and they were none too happy with Moses and Aaron. They were famished and complained loudly that they might as well have died back in Egypt, rather than starve to death in the wilderness.  Still possessing a slave mentality, [...]

The LA  Times reports the arrest of a Baptist minister on charges of stealing more than $800,000 from the Southern California church he leads. The LA County Sherriff’s Department says Rev. E. Joshua Sims, pastor of Double Rock Baptist Church in Compton, was taken into custody after a months-long investigation.
Between March 2000 and September 2008, investigators believe, Sims diverted [...]

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach spoke with BiblEconomy about the roots of the financial crisis and how we transcend it.
“The collapse of our economy was caused not by an economic crisis but a spiritual crisis called greed, where you become voracious and insatiable. I believe that the Jewish community, and the Jewish religion has unique values that need [...]

The Guardian (U.K.) reports in Greed is Good: A Guide to Radical Individualism:
In 1991, a survey carried out by the American Library of Congress and the Book of the Month club declared Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, “the most influential book on American lives after the Bible”. It has sold more than 6m copies in [...]

The Salt Lake Tribune reports on the religious debate: should responsible taxpayers who took out affordable mortgages bail out those who didn’t?
Is it ethical for others to foot the bill for your bad financial decisions? And is it ethical to say no to those pleas for help?
The article quotes Mu Soeng, a Buddhist studies [...]

Zenit reports Pope Benedict XVI in a Feb. 26 meeting with parish priests of Rome, urged them to speak out “against avarice on a large scale, and forming justice in the hearts of all people.”
He addressed a pastor’s question about how to help people deal with the present economic crisis. On the level of macroeconomics, [...]