Episode 17 - Generational Wealth

Episode 17 - Generational Wealth

From Canterbury Trails by Jared Lovell | C.Jay Engel

August 21, 2025 · 47 min · Episode 17

About this episode

Jared and C. Jay discuss the upcoming Generational Wealth conference and explore themes of wealth, community, and cultural continuity from a Christian perspective.

In Episode 17 of Canterbury Trails, Jared and C. Jay discuss an important upcoming conference sponsored by Jared’s church: Building Generational Wealth: Preparing Heirs for the Unexpected Journey. But this is no mere promo video: join us as our hosts engage in a fascinating conversation about the conference topic and related matters: vocation, the Medieval view of wealth, intergenerational living, and how such a way of life can be a catalyst of cultural continuity in a world of cultural liquidation. What Christians need today is an older understanding of the economy that transcends the transactional; and a definition of wealth that moves beyond mere money. True Wealth includes the family itself. Modern individualism has lost this understanding. But there is a strong English tradition that approaches wealth and the community in this forgotten way. This way is fundamentally Burkean: a social contract between the living, the dead, and those yet unborn. Christians in America today, Evangelicals specifically, struggle to think except in terms of individualism. But shared memories and shared experiences are a type of generational wealth. Skills, even of an artistic nature, are wealth…

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Hosts: Jared Lovell, C.Jay Engel

Topics covered

  • generational wealth
  • vocation
  • Medieval view of wealth
  • intergenerational living
  • cultural continuity
  • Christian economy

Keywords

  • generational wealth
  • Christianity
  • cultural continuity
  • individualism
  • family wealth
  • vocation
  • Medieval wealth

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