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May 2016

May 11, 2016

Love Is the Law of His Kingdom

By Herman Bavinck We are seeing a universal pursuit of equality, a yearning to eliminate...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Finding Meaning and Beauty as a Fast Food Worker

By Joseph Sunde “This is not what I thought I’d be doing at twenty-seven.” So...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Kuyper’s Impact on Chuck Colson

By Joseph Sunde “I’ve done my best to popularize Kuyper, because that’s what’s so desperately...

February 08, 2016

Charles Koch’s Metaphysics of Business

By Stephen Schmalhofer Adam Smith, that venerable a supporter of free enterprise, held businessmen in...

February 03, 2016

Social Justice and the Evangelical Church Today

By Jordan Ballor An understanding of the rise, decline, and reinvigoration of institutions in the history...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Seeking Justice Must Always Be Personal

By Joseph Sunde Conversations about justice tend to quickly devolve into debates over top-down solutions...

January 20, 2016

Gospel Entrepreneurs

By Joseph Sunde In his book, Risky Gospel, Owen Strachan calls Christians to an active life...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Kuyper: ‘Think About Your Shepherding’

By Jordan Ballor Over at the Calvinist International I’ve posted the text of a Christmas meditation...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Abraham Kuyper’s Public Theology Today

By Jordan Ballor The Acton Institute has launched a new 12-volume series of Kuyper’s works, titled Abraham Kuyper...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

Immigrants, Refugees, and the Conversionary Tale of Jean Valjean

By Evan Koons As heated talks on immigration flare up and the horrible injustice of...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

Giveaway: Win All 3 Books from Kuyper’s ‘Common Grace, Vol. 1’

Christian’s Library Press has released Volume 1 of its English translations of Abraham Kuyper’s most...

August 05, 2015

Life in Exile: Why Christians Have Never Been ‘At Home’ in America

By Joseph Sunde In the various discussions surrounding the Acton Institute’s film series, For the Life...

August 04, 2015

Wonder Rush – “Gratitude” by Dr. Anthony Bradley

By Evan Koons Hello strangers and friends! Check out the latest Wonder Rush from Dr. Anthony Bradley....

July 2015

July 23, 2015

All About That Bass: 3 Things I Learned about the Economy of Wisdom from Victor Wooten

By Evan Koons I’m going to something a bit different in this post. I’m going...

July 22, 2015

Makoto Fujimura on Cultivating the Imagination

By Joseph Sunde “The cultivation of imagination is to begin to integrate life into faith...

July 14, 2015

Entrepreneurial Stewardship: Owner Gives Away Millions to Employees

By Sarah Stanley Employees of the Huizenga Automation Group got a great surprise last spring....

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Why the Price System is One of God’s Artworks

By Joe Carter At an auction in 2007 Andreas Gursky turned 99 cents into $3.34 million. Well,...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Risky Business at a Trucking Company

By Chris Horst Trucks fill our highways, rushing goods and gifts from one place to another....

May 19, 2015

Lessons in Creative Destruction from ‘Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel’

By Joseph Sunde Creative destruction can be a painful thing, particularly when you’re the one...

April 2015

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...

March 2015

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 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...

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...

February 06, 2015

The Drink for What Ails You

By Evan Koons We’re wrapping up the Economy of Wonder with a trip to the FLOW Saloon...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

How to Develop a Christian Mind in Business School (Part IV)

By Joe Carter Note: This is the fourth in a series on developing a Christian mind in...

January 08, 2015

The Forms of Stewardship

The following excerpt comes from Faithful in All God's House, and is reprinted here with the...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

What Are the Conditions for Human Flourishing?

By Joseph Sunde “A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us...

December 23, 2014

How to Develop a Christian Mind in Business School (Part II)

By Joe Carter Note: This is the second in a series on developing a Christian...

December 19, 2014

My Letter from the Economy of Wisdom

By Evan Koons Dear Everybody, Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding,...

November 2014

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...