Mark Horne

Mark Horne

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Mark Horne has served as a pastor and worked as a writer. He is the author of The Victory According To Mark: An Exposition of the Second Gospel, Why Baptize Babies?,J. R. R. Tolkien, and Solomon Says: Directives for Young Men. He is the Executive Director of Logo Sapiens Communications and the writer for SolomonSays.net.

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  • Government-mandated sloth profits no one

    Government-mandated sloth profits no one

    A few weeks ago, I pointed out that slavery is a frustrating institution for the slaveholder who wants productive labor. I think this assertion helps explain the ambivalence about the pandemic we seem to be seeing from our government.

  • Made to trade: what the Bible teaches about exchange

    Made to trade: what the Bible teaches about exchange

    There is a school of thought in economics which believes that beginners are best taught the subject by considering the story of Robinson Crusoe. How can his story teach us anything about economics? Because, even alone, Crusoe has to allocate resources, engage in entrepreneurial activity, and make trade-offs.

  • Cancel culture versus Christian competence

    Cancel culture versus Christian competence

    The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace is relatively well-known. The emperor Nebuchadnezzar sets up a huge idol and commands everyone bow to it whenever they hear music play. But since Nebuchadnezzar had no control over people’s actions or desires, he couldn’t really make them do what he wanted.

  • Solomon says nostalgia is not wisdom

    Solomon says nostalgia is not wisdom

    "Say not, 'Why were the former days better than these?' For it is not from wisdom that you ask this." (Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV). When I get into discussions about “economic issues” with fellow Christians, sometimes it seems that nostalgia has taken the place of reason and ethics.

  • What kind of person is ready for downturns?

    What kind of person is ready for downturns?

    Inflation, unemployment, worker shortages? What’s going on? I’ve got some ideas and I’m sure you do, too. But after we’ve solved our political and structural problems (take an imaginary trip into optimism with me for the sake of thinking long-term), we might also ask: What type of people or culture will best deal with economic hard times?

  • Facebook 'Oversight Board' is Laban leadership

    Facebook 'Oversight Board' is Laban leadership

    The New York Times recently published a fascinating article about Facebook’s ongoing censorship of Donald Trump, and their alleged “Oversight Board.”

  • Christians, don't imitate corporate cancellers

    Christians, don't imitate corporate cancellers

    The reputedly Stoic Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, wrote, “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

  • Solomon on ‘woke capitalism’

    Solomon on ‘woke capitalism’

    Those of us who appreciate the free market in a free economy, where the civil leaders are restrained to enforcing fair and predictable rules that everyone can operate by, might be tempted to think that the wise should tend to succeed. If so, then our present situation of Leftist Corporate culture and advocacy is hard to understand.

  • Solomon, the Suez blockage, and free trade

    Solomon, the Suez blockage, and free trade

    Solomon, himself, built the Temple of God through trade, importing material down the coast from a neighboring kingdom.

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