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September 2025

September 22, 2025

The Social Contract

In this broken time when so much is rent asunder, it felt radical to trust,...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

The Long Goodbye

The overlap between the chattering classes and the people who actually receive government benefits is...

December 17, 2021

Things the 2021 Supply Chain Disruptions Have Kept Me From Buying, A Partial List

Men's Nunn Bush shoes, wide width Tic Tacs Peppermints Altoids (Seriously, what is it with...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

That Time I Accidentally Became a Prophet

"Just in time" is over. The full toll it took on us is only beginning...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Top Ten Things I’ve Forgotten How to Use During the Pandemic

Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really.

July 2020

July 05, 2020

Coronavirus Monastery

Sabbath is necessary, and this one was overdue. But the thing about sabbaths is that...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

God is Extravangant

It's an oft-repeated truism that it's actually people who have very little who give the...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

Ten Things About Work We’ve Learned From COVID-19

Many things most essential to being human turn out to be things that require close...

March 2020

March 10, 2020

Late Capitalism and the Chromebook Charger

What I don’t know is if this is a praiseworthy tale of the ability of...

September 2019

September 12, 2019

Buying My Way to the Front of the Queue

In a world where it becomes very easy to buy one's way to the front...

September 26, 2017

The Use of Money

How we Earn, Save, and Give our money is all meant to give life to...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

We Have to Dare to Preach the Gospel

In this interview, the leader of the Moral Mondays movement talks about leading in the...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

How Government Support Saved Me, Too

D. L. Mayfield (whose career I've followed ever since she and I were put together...

May 16, 2017

When Richer Weds Poorer

Starting tomorrow, I'm taking this class from Made to Flourish regarding ministering to blue-collar workers. As part...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream

This recent New York Times article challenged some things I've been assuming: Blaming robots, though, while not...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

What Exactly is a Fair Wage?

Kevin Kinghorn has some thoughts about this over at Seedbed: The packages of Traidcraft coffee...

October 2016

October 10, 2016

Thinking Christianly About the Denmark Model of Economics

Someday I hope we'll be able to have some contributions from the Faith and Work...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

The Business Crisis Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Are Ignoring

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. American entrepreneurship...

August 14, 2016

Budgets as Moral Documents

Check out the latest post at the Faith and Work Collective, on considering budgets as...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

This Matters: Response to the Shootings and a Call to Stay Engaged

By David Spickard People have been asking me how I’m reacting to all that’s going...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The blessings of business?

A month or so ago, I got an email from my doctoral advisor (who has...

June 25, 2016

#Brexit and the day I turned into a classical liberal

I found out about #Brexit yesterday morning under less than ideal circumstances: my husband and...

June 16, 2016

The good, the bad, and the Amway: a second post from #AU2016

I've now been through the opening banquet and one full day of Acton University, and...

June 15, 2016

“What if I told you the boundaries are wrong?” #AU2016

So, I'm here at Acton University in beautiful downtown Grand Rapids (I'm actually not kidding;...

May 2016

May 12, 2016

What is a Good Job in the Gig Economy?

The old bargain between labor and capital has, for all intents and purposes, been called...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Here’s a cheerful thought for #taxday: money doesn’t exist

Money is just a convenient fiction.

January 2016

January 30, 2016

VIDEO: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

.....a breathtaking digital animation narrated by Swedish economist Hans Rosling. It shows the impact of...

January 28, 2016

Why Poor People Stay Poor

An article was published recently in Slate about this; it's an excerpt from Hand to...

January 17, 2016

Households and economic injustice in the Old Testament

By Keith Reeves In the first part of this article we looked at how the family...

January 15, 2016

Family, land, and households in the Old Testament

By Keith Reeves The connection between the family and ownership of land – economic production...