Opening the Hinge
A new inquiry into the intersection of faith, history, and the ethics of wealth.
The Journey Begins
For thirty years, I have navigated the strategic and economic landscapes of business and policy. Today, as an MDiv candidate, I am turning that lens toward the “hinges” of our shared history.
The Moral Hinge is a research-driven exploration of how our sacred and systemic foundations created the world we inhabit today. Over the coming months, we will investigate:
The Imperial Hinge: How the parallel rises of the Carolingian and Abbasid empires in the 8th century defined the global East-West divide.
The Business of Religion: Tracking the theological shifts from early Church communalism to the modern realities of systemic income inequality.
The Secular Age: How our modern “social imaginary” changed the way we view God and money.
I am currently diving into a two-week research sprint involving Charles Taylor, Peter Brown, and the economic structures of the early medieval world.
Subscribe to join the journey. Early supporters will receive my first major research dispatch on March 14th.
— Pete Hamm