Wealth
Economics, technology, work, labor. Scripture talks about money more than almost anything else. These reflections read the economy's headlines alongside texts about debt, wages, greed, and generosity.
A Generation Leaves Faster Than the Next Was Trained
AI isn't the threat economists actually worry about. It's a generation leaving trades and hospital wards faster than anyone trained to fill them.
Leaving Home Now Costs More Than Staying
Seven in ten of the 25 million young adults living with parents have jobs. What used to make someone an adult now costs more than it pays.
Graduates Fear AI While America Runs Out of Nurses and Welders
The U.S. faces its largest projected worker shortage ever. Three thousand years ago, the richest king in Scripture faced it too, and had to write a letter.
Executives Bought a Story That Let Them Stop Counting Workers
A July 2026 KPMG survey found leaders blindsided by AI bills. The half-built tower was never a budgeting error. It was a shortcut nobody checked.
They Studied Justice. They Chose Otherwise.
Forty of 86 Brown economics students taking a course on fairness cheated using AI. A reflection on knowing what's right and choosing otherwise anyway.
A Record Year of Giving, Carried by People Feeling the Squeeze
Households gave more than ever in a year they could least afford it, while a billionaire called real generosity very hard.
Ford Brought Back the Engineers Its Machines Could Not Replace
Ford tried to automate its veteran engineers away, then quietly rehired the ones it let go to fix what the machines got wrong.
One of the richest companies on earth has its worst morale ever.
Meta's CTO says morale is the worst in 20 years, after layoffs to fund its AI race. Jesus asked what it profits to gain the world and lose your soul.
Bloomberg put $90 million behind teaching kids to weld
A $90M Bloomberg initiative will route 15,000 high schoolers in nine cities toward welding, HVAC, and carpentry. Five workers retire from the trades for every two who enter.
An 85-year-old AMC usher got $146,000 from strangers who watched her work
A young customer filmed Mary Ellen Eron, 85, hauling a trash bag in a Tennessee theater. Within days, 7,500 strangers had paid for her retirement.
Ohio paused its data-center giveaways after the farmers showed up
Iowa farmers and Sierra Club lawyers filed in the same docket. Ohio listened. Proverbs has a one-line warning about moving an old stone.
Eastlake's Last Brass
A plant that has shaped trumpets for sixty years is closing. The owner says America must protect what it makes. Production moves to China.
The People Who Stop Looking
April's jobs report looked stable. Underneath, labor force participation hit a four-year low. Jeremiah named the gap between healing and the wound.
Naboth's Vineyard, Rezoned
A Michigan township unanimously refused a $16 billion data center. The land was rezoned anyway. The Bible has a name for what cannot be priced.
Rigged Scales in the Cocoa Trade
Cocoa prices fell in 2026. Chocolate makers cheered. About 40% of cocoa-growing households still send children into the fields. The math is older than the market.
Bonuses First, Paychecks Last
Spirit Airlines is asking a court for $10.7 million in executive retention bonuses. Seventeen thousand workers learned overnight they had no jobs and possibly no final paycheck.
A Court Decides Who Pays for the Robot
A Hangzhou court told employers they cannot fire workers just to swap in AI. The ruling is small. The structure underneath it is old.
The Rust on the Gold
U.S. CEO pay grew twenty times faster than worker wages last year. The ratio is now 281 to 1. James addresses the rich directly, and the language is not gentle.
The Goods That Refuse to Scale
Independent bookstores are growing for the first time in twenty years. The comeback is not nostalgia. It is people repricing what efficiency cannot deliver.
Maryland Bans Surveillance Pricing in Groceries
Maryland outlaws the use of personal data to charge grocery shoppers different prices for the same products. Other states are watching.
AI Costs More Than the Workers It Replaces
An Nvidia executive admits AI compute costs exceed employee costs, raising questions about who truly benefits from the rush to automate.
The Builders Become the Rubble
Meta and Microsoft cut 20,000 jobs in a single week, citing AI. The companies building the tools are the first to be replaced by them.
The Brief That Cited Ghosts
Sullivan & Cromwell submitted fabricated legal citations generated by AI. The firm advises OpenAI on the safe and ethical use of the same technology.
The Wages Cry Out From the Server Farms
Nineteen families gained $1.8 trillion while AI erases thousands of jobs each month. An ancient letter saw this shape before.
When the Record Disappears
Twenty-three news organizations have blocked the internet's largest public archive. The prophet Isaiah saw what happens when the powerful prefer silence.
Dirt-Powered Fuel Cells Harvest Energy from Decay
Northwestern engineers extract electricity from soil microbes, turning decomposition into a power source that could outlast batteries and solar panels alike.
Blood Money Found a New Market
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on airstrikes and assassinations. War has become a financial asset class.
The World Bank Recants Its Own Gospel
The World Bank now says government intervention drives prosperity. Scripture asked who the economy belongs to long before economists did.
Turn Around and Not Look
An Amazon worker collapsed and died at PDX9 in Troutdale. The conveyor belts kept running for over an hour. Scripture has a word for what the worker's body is, and it is not a number.
What the Algorithm Cannot Write
Hollywood writers secured AI protections in a new four-year deal. The Bible's first Spirit-filled worker was not a priest. He was a craftsman.