Jacob Imam, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Jacob Imam

Jacob Imam is an economist and executive director of New Polity.

Christians Give Alms

By Jacob Imam|2024-12-22T09:25:30-06:00December 21st, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Charity, New Polity|

The Catechism praises almsgiving as, “Money or goods given to the poor as an act of penance or fraternal charity.” It may sound like a humdrum practice, but almsgiving would have been unthinkable, strange, to the ancient, pagan world. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, it was no virtue to give to the poor. In [...]

Prayer, Fasting, and That Other One

By Jacob Imam|2024-12-22T09:21:36-06:00February 23rd, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Lent, New Polity|

By an act of almsgiving, we remedy an unjust distribution of the gift of the whole earth; we remedy, for our neighbor, what disobedience to God’s plan has wrought. Almsgiving is fitting for the forgiveness of sin because it uses money, the very tool enabling unjust distribution, for the sake of just distribution. Usually I [...]