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January 2016

January 11, 2016

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions

We just ran into this fascinating article at The Atlantic (it's a couple years old,...

January 04, 2016

Ayn Rand Didn’t Understand Capitalism. Or Altruism. Or Christianity. Or Reality.

Rand had an almost complete misunderstanding of capitalism. She confused self-interest with selfishness.

December 2015

December 09, 2015

From 20 cents to $2200: Adventures in Tithing

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Charitable Giving. Read...

December 08, 2015

What both Bernie Sanders and George Will Contribute to the Christian Debate on Income Inequality

By Anne Bradley Income inequality is one of the most hotly debated topics of the...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

From the archives: Amazon, #BlackFriday, and the Moral Limits of Shopping

By Jordan J. Ballor Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,...

November 10, 2015

Word-of-mouth reigns supreme: the role of publishers in a digital age: part 4 of an interview with Tami Heim

This post continues our partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity in...

November 09, 2015

Not very hopeful about the future of bookstores: part 3 of an interview with Tami Heim

This post continues our partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity in...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

Rising Tide or Zero-Sum Game?

Why Christians should care that the Nobel prize in economics has gone to poverty and...

October 03, 2015

Why God Loves Business

As Creator, God could have placed Adam and Eve in the midst of a highly...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Christ is Lord over all: Why it’s ok for the Pope to talk about money

By Zen Hess There is a lively discussion on the internet regarding Pope Francis addressing...

September 17, 2015

Can anything good come out of #Ferguson?

By David Spickard, originally published in March 2015. Jerome Jenkins is a business owner. It’s...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

10 final theses about the Acton Institute

The conclusion of our reports and analysis from the recent Acton University conference. Read the...

August 03, 2015

The Pope and the farmer

More of our reports and analysis from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Business as moral community

Integrating faith with the demands of work is a challenge many Christians face. Two men...

July 21, 2015

We’re all working for the Pharaoh

More of our reports and analysis from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first...

July 14, 2015

The pursuit of wealth is not neutral

More of our reports and analysis from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first...

July 02, 2015

The best way to erase poverty

By Bill Peel "The best anti-poverty program is a job," said President Obama at the...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

But what about sin? more from #ActonU

More of our reports from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first six posts...

June 26, 2015

Was Jesus a socialist? More from #ActonU

More of our reports from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first five posts...

June 22, 2015

Letting our Jesus Freak flag fly: more reports from #ActonU

More of our reports from the recent Acton University conference. Read the first four posts...

June 18, 2015

Is there really enough to go around for everybody? #ActonU

More of our “correspondent on the spot” at Acton University! Follow the Twitter feed from...

June 18, 2015

“Don’t immanentize the eschaton,” or whether we might need utopias after all #ActonU

More of our “correspondent on the spot” at Acton University! Follow the Twitter feed from...

June 18, 2015

We can’t create heaven on earth: more from #ActonU

More of our "correspondent on the spot" at Acton University! Read his first post here....

June 17, 2015

The refreshing difference at #ActonU

Lots of exciting things around here this week--in addition to the great debate about evangelizing...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Christian hipsterprenuers work to redeem capitalism

By Elise Amyx The media has decided that millennials don’t make any sense. For good...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

What can really help hurting workers?

This article originally appeared at Hang Together. College of the Ozarks’ “Hard Work U” Program...

February 16, 2015

[VIDEO] Even more great talks to encourage you from the Faith@Work Summit

Some more great talks from the Faith@Work Summit have now been posted. (Here's the first...

February 09, 2015

From the archives: Christian creativity

If Christians are not actively working to transform and develop their world for the common...

February 06, 2015

Cleaning house

By Keith Reeves, professor of biblical studies, Azusa Pacific University The temple cleansing narrative, found...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

The necessity of risk

By Petar Nenadov, originally published at the KPN Resources blog Several resources now exist that...