Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology at viola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, an author, speaker, and apologetic professor also here at Tala School of Theology.

We're here today with Dr. Tom Nelson, who is pastor of Christ's community in

suburban Kansas City and the head of the Made to Flourish network, which is a network of

pastors and local churches, committed to a theology of work and

vocation and the contribution to the common good. Thomas just come out with a new book that we want to feature today called The Economics of

Neighborly Love.

It's a really terrific book that we recommend to all of our listeners.

Tom, you bring together terms in the title of the book

that we don't often see together, economics

and love of neighbor.

Tell me, how do those fit together and how did you come up with that combination for the

title of your book?

Well I think you're right we tend to have a real big division between the idea of what

economics is and what theology is and so what I try to do is to be a bridge

builder between two disciplines

that are often separate, but they really are closely connected.

And so the neighborly love ideas,

I think most of us very economics

we think is left for the curve or supply and demand curves

or something like that, but the idea of bringing economics in neighbor law was really important to see that

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