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From the “put your money — not someone else’s — where your mouth is section: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey makes news again, this time for giving half his salary to charity. Read more…

Ayn Rand is brilliant, and her ideas need to be heard. But they are also unreasonably biased against faith, making them incomplete. Her prejudice against faith…

Pursuit of short-term gratification = greed. Equals being led by the flesh.
But pursuit of long-term self-interest, seeking that which can TRULY satisfy, which will TRULY bring joy…doesn’t that necesarily point to pursuit of “higher things”, and ultimately to pursuit of God?
Isn’t that the “Christian hedonism” John Piper talks about? Isn’t that what the Spirit leads us to?
Isn’t that completely compatible with following Jesus?