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May 2015

May 12, 2015

The Church: Christ’s Body Offered to the Father

By Evan Koons Remember this: the church is the body of Christ, given as a...

May 12, 2015

How Hiring a Convicted Felon Changed a Business and Saved a Life

By Elise Hilton No doubt about it: hiring a convicted felon is a gamble. For...

May 08, 2015

Celebrating the Work of Mothers

By Joseph Sunde In a stunning video, Matt Bieler strings together beautiful images and a few...

May 08, 2015

Boyhood, the Masculine Spirit, and the Formative Power of Work

By Joseph Sunde The modern age has introduced many blessings when it comes to child-rearing and...

May 06, 2015

The Power of Market-Driven Diversity

By Anthony Bradley The story of Chicago-based Supreme Life Insurance Company of America, one of...

May 05, 2015

Dig Deeper: The Writers and Thinkers Behind ‘FLOW’

By Evan Koons Hello Fr-angers and St-riends, Perhaps you’ve completed For the Life of the...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

François Michelin — The Anti-Gordon Gekko

By Sarah Stanley François Michelin (1926-2015), former leader of the the world’s second-largest tire maker,...

April 29, 2015

The Disease of Self-Chosen Sacrifice

By Joseph Sunde In our efforts to serve others and do good in the world,...

April 28, 2015

Pope Francis and the Idea of Christian Poverty

By Oskari Juurikkala To provide a synthesis of Pope Francis’s thinking on the economy is both...

April 23, 2015

Workers and Laborers or Kings and Priests?

By John Bolt The following is an adapted excerpt from Economic Shalom, John Bolt’s Reformed primer...

April 21, 2015

Smitty the Artisan Bricklayer

By Chris Horst For two summers during college, I worked ten-hour days under the hot...

April 20, 2015

A Market for Disability: Down Syndrome and the Economic Imagination

By Joseph Sunde In a powerful profile of his son Jamie, a young man with Down syndrome,...

April 15, 2015

Wonder Rush – Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Evan Koons St. Porphyrios writes “Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a...

April 14, 2015

Is There Hope for the Workplace?

By Peter Johnson Bill Dalgetty’s Hope for the Workplace: Christ in You is rich with stories of...

April 07, 2015

Bring Back Childhood Chores: How Hard Work Cultivates Character

By Joseph Sunde Today’s parents are obsessed with setting their kids on strategic paths to...

April 03, 2015

The Monk as Merchant: Economic Wisdom from a Desert Hermit

By Dylan Pahman Before Max Weber ever conducted his study of the “Protestant ethic” of hard work...

April 03, 2015

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Economy of Love

By Jordan Ballor On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and...

April 01, 2015

Why An Urban Church Abandoned Traditional Charity

By Joseph Sunde In the early 2000s, Broadway United Methodist Church had a series of outreach programs,...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

How Entrepreneurs Practice Their Faith Through Companies

By Chris Horst Since the Hobby Lobby case, there’s been lots of talk about what makes...

March 25, 2015

Firstfruits Economics

By Joseph Sunde “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all...

March 24, 2015

Work, the Curse, and Common Grace

By Jordan Ballor That human beings were created to be creators, to work, is undeniable....

March 20, 2015

Work Is Personal: Why It’s Never ‘Just Business’

By Heidi Segal Spend half a moment in the workaday world and likely you’ll hear...

March 18, 2015

How to Find Joy and Meaning in Your Work

By Charlie Self One of our favorite coffee shops when we lived in Washington, D.C....

March 17, 2015

Mike Rowe on the Minimum Wage: There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Bad Job’

By Joseph Sunde In the latest addition to Mike Rowe’s growing catalog of pointed Facebook responses, the former Dirty Jobs host...

March 11, 2015

Does Manual Labor Have a Place in the Faith and Work Discussion?

By Joe Carter Over the past two decades there has been an increased interest and...

March 10, 2015

Everyday Christianity: A Faith Free From The Accidental Pharisaism of Missional, Radical, Crazy, and Other Superlatives

By Anthony Bradley Every day matters. This is the very simple message of what it...

March 09, 2015

Why Gender Matters for Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde “By putting male and female together as the image of God, there’s...

March 04, 2015

Sacrifice and Self-Interest in the Marketplace

By Jordan Ballor One of the complaints often rendered against the market economy is that...

March 03, 2015

Lived Memory – Part I

By Evan Koons I think I was in kindergarten. It might have been preschool (both...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Whatever We Endeavor, All of It Is His

By Abraham Kuyper The following is an excerpt from Abraham Kuyper’s Rooted and Grounded, reprinted...

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