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Welcome. My name is Dan Hugar, librarian and research associate at the Action Institute.

Today I'm joined by my colleague Dylan Palmer, Research Fellow and Executive Editor of the

Journal of Markets and Morality here at the Acton Institute. He's also founder and president of the

St. Nicholas Casabellus Institute for Orthodoxy and Liberty. Today, we'll be discussing his new book,

The Kingdom of God and the Common Good, Orthodox Christian Social Thought. This is from ancient faith

is just out earlier this week. And Dylan, welcome to Act in Line, and thank you for being with us.

Good to be here, Dan.

Going to be back.

Back.

We have discussed a chapter of this book previously talking about Christians in the Ancient Near East.

We will link to that in the show notes.

But I want this to be like a very much broader conversation because your book is very

broad. And it presents a sort of extended discussion of orthodox social thought. And the first

question to tee it off is why do we need that extended discussion? Yeah. No, that's a great

question. So the book opens actually actually, with the survey of other Christian tradition's social thought.

And that is to partly show that, like, other Christians, whether they be, you know, Catholic or Lutheran or Calvinists, they have their own ways, their own tools to

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