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December 2014

December 09, 2014

How a Shoe Builds Civilization

By Joseph Sunde Can something as simple as a shoe build civilization? I recently had...

December 05, 2014

The Great Exchange of the Magi

By Dylan Pahman On the Nativity of Jesus Christ, Christians celebrate the birth of the...

December 04, 2014

Beauty – an Excerpt from von Balthasar

"Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Beauty is the last thing which...

December 03, 2014

Disability, Service, and Stewardship

By Jordan Ballor There’s a dangerous tendency in America today to view disabilities of various...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Pilgrims, Property Rights, and the Source of Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde Each Thanksgiving brings with it an opportunity to pause, meditate, and express our...

November 25, 2014

Blue Laws and Black Friday

By Jordan Ballor Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, called “black” because...

November 21, 2014

Talented but Unemployed? God May Be Calling You to Grubby, Unglamorous Work

By Jonathan Witt A recent Wall Street Journal story looks at the “millions of working-age men” sidelined...

November 19, 2014

Knowledge: Something or Someone?

By Evan Koons Scrolling through Facebook last week, I stumbled on a meme that I...

November 18, 2014

King David on the Heart of Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde We live amid unprecedented economic prosperity, and with the promise of globalization...

November 14, 2014

Why Your Job Pushing Paper Can Help Change the World

By Joe Carter More than at any time in the last hundred years, Christians (at...

November 13, 2014

Toil as Curse and Grace

By Dylan Pahman According to ancient legend, Sisyphus was punished by the gods for his...

November 12, 2014

Are Christians in Ministry the Only ‘Real’ Christians?

By Elise Hilton I’ve been following an interesting discussion at NRT, a Christian music website, regarding...

November 11, 2014

All Is Gift: Lessons in Stewardship from C.S. Lewis’ ‘Perelandra’

By Joseph Sunde One of the primary themes in the Acton Institute’s new series, For the...

November 06, 2014

Graceful Marketing in a Broken World

By Jordan Ballor In his reflections on art and common grace, Abraham Kuyper affirmed that “the world of...

November 05, 2014

8 Lessons on Work and Stewardship from Disney’s ‘Silly Symphonies’

By Joseph Sunde Teaching our children about the value and virtues of hard work and...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

‘Work Is a Good Thing for Man’

By Elise Hilton I was transfixed by this video the other day. The simplicity of...

October 29, 2014

The Soul of the System

By Jordan Ballor In his review of Hunter Baker’s latest book, The System Has a Soul, Doug...

October 28, 2014

The School of Love Acceptance Letter

By Evan Koons Dear Sir or Madam, Congratulations! I’d like to formally acknowledge your enrollment in,...

October 24, 2014

Loving the Hunt: Kuyper on Scholarship and Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde In “Scholastica II,” a convocation address delivered to Amsterdam’s Free University in...

October 22, 2014

A Prayer for the Aid of God in Vocation

By Jordan Ballor At the conclusion of the English translation of Niels Hemmingsen’s The Way of...

October 21, 2014

Welfare, Work, and Human Dignity

By Dylan Pahman A website called Over Fifty and Out of Work offers Baby-Boomers who have lost...

October 17, 2014

Why Christians Should Listen to Mike Rowe on (Not) ‘Following Your Passion’

By Joseph Sunde Television personality and former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe has become somewhat notorious for penning...

October 14, 2014

Common Grace, Vocation, and Young Adults

By Elise Hilton In preparation for the Symposium on Common Grace in Business (co-sponsored by the Acton...

October 14, 2014

Exile Supply Pack: Expand Your FLOW Experience

By Joseph Sunde The Acton Institute’s new film series, For the Life of the World: Letters to...

October 09, 2014

Walking on Water

By Evan Koons World-renowned fine artist, and special guest in Episode 6 of For the...

October 07, 2014

The ‘Transformational Quartet’ of Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde “Christian discipleship is nothing less than conformity to Christ—as individual believers and...

October 06, 2014

The Image of God and You

By Jordan Ballor Conversations about human dignity often, and rightly, refer to the biblical concept...

October 01, 2014

‘Abraham Kuyper Goes Pop’ in FLOW

By Elise Hilton Andy Crouch, Christian author, musician and former Acton University plenary speaker, reviews For...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

All Is Gift

“All that exists is God’s gift to man, and it all exists to make God...

September 25, 2014

Everything Really Is Awesome

By Jordan Ballor There’s much for lovers of faith and freedom to appreciate in the new LEGO...

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