About The Moral Hinge
Finding our direction at the intersection of power, faith, and wealth.
We are living in an era of profound economic and spiritual fracture. Systemic income inequality continues to widen, while our cultural and religious identities often retreat into echo chambers of “us vs. them.”
The Moral Hinge is a research-driven publication that asks a difficult question: How did our sacred and systemic foundations create the world we inhabit today?
The Perspective: 30 Years of Business meets MDiv Scholarship This isn’t a typical dry academic blog. It is a “Radical Candor” inquiry led by Pete Hamm, an author and MDiv candidate specializing in Church History.
After three decades spent in the worlds of U.S. Congress, defense contracting, and private business, Pete is now applying that strategic “business of religion” lens to the history of the Church and the global East-West divide. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy and is currently researching the deep-seated connections between ancient imperial statecraft and modern economic ethics.
Our Three Investigative Pillars: The Imperial Hinge: We look back to the 8th and 9th centuries—the era of Pope Leo, Charlemagne, and the Abbasid Caliphate—to uncover how these parallel empires codified the laws and religious identities that still define the “West” and the “Islamic World” today.
The Needle’s Eye: We examine the Church’s “economic soul,” tracing the line from the radical communalism of the early Church Fathers to the systemic wealth gaps of modern capitalism.
The Secular Age: Informed by the philosophies of Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel and Jürgen Habermashow we explore how our “modern social imaginary” changed the way we view God, money, and our responsibility to one another.
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Deep-Dive Essays: Bi-weekly explorations into historical hinges and modern ethics.
Research Notes: Dispatches from the front lines of seminary study and primary source research.
Radical Candor: An honest look at both the “good” and “bad” of our shared religious and economic history.
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