Sublime

A significant faction of Americans have lost confidence in the federal government through the belief that the technocrats are acting not in the best interests of the citizenry but rather to protect their position and power in government.

Under immense pressure from senior leadership, tempted by the lure of compelling incentives, many bankers opened fraudulent accounts on their customers’ behalf without their permission.

Emancipated from its ministry of justice under God’s rule, the modern state has turned away from Scripture’s moral law as the standard of political and legal obligation within society.

Biznistry can also help the local church be a better steward of the resources it already has. In Jesus’ Parable of the Talents, the servant who safely hid the money entrusted to him and returned it later was called wicked, lazy and worthless.1 The master expected his servants to steward his money shrewdly, putting it to work to achieve the maximum

Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.

For John Fullerton, the banker who walked away from Wall Street, here lies the source of the problem. ‘We’ve reached the logical conclusion of this expansionist economic paradigm,’ he says. ‘Unless we can achieve magical decoupling we have an exponential function on a closed system planet … yet the finance system has no in-built plateau, it can’t “

The federal government has become the domain of hedgehogs, urgently needed people but profoundly insufficient. It is wisdom that is lacking, and there is no civil service code for the wise.