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September 2016

September 07, 2016

Spiritual Change in the Great Enrichment

By Joseph Sunde In Dierdre McCloskey’s latest book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or...

August 2016

August 09, 2016

Pokémon GO is the Sweet, Successful Fruit of Failure

By Dylan Pahman In a weekend, Pokémon GO has already taken our smartphones by storm....

March 2016

March 02, 2016

3 Lessons on Social Institutions from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

By Jordan Ballor Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their daughter may indeed be...

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 15, 2016

The Mundane Morality of Les Misérables

By Jordan Ballor The 2012 film, Les Misérables, is a remarkable achievement, not only for its ambitious cinematic...

January 13, 2016

Aslan’s Song of Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde When we think about “stewardship,” our minds tend to revert to the material and...

January 11, 2016

Wonder Rush: Coffee, Work, and Showing Up

By Evan Koons I first met Karl Fisher, founder of Alabaster Coffee Roaster + Tea Company,...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

The Church as Cultural Lifeblood

By Joseph Sunde After years of rejecting or downplaying so-called “organized religion,” evangelicals are beginning...

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...

December 21, 2015

Joy for the World: Restoring the Joy of God to Cultural Witness

By Joseph Sunde Over the last century, Christianity has declined in social influence across much...

December 07, 2015

Envy in a Time of Inequality

By Samuel Gregg Envy, I’ve often thought, is the very worst human emotion. The epic...

December 02, 2015

All Is Gift: Buy-One, Give-One Holiday Special!

By Evan Koons As Christmas approaches and we focus on being generous to those we love...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Calvin Coolidge and a Thanksgiving of Abundance

By Ray Nothstine My pastor once made the point that the more secular we become as a...

November 17, 2015

The Frontier Spirit of ‘The Martian’

By Dylan Pahman After the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel...

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...

November 11, 2015

Raw Craft: The Art of Bookmaking and the Glory of Craftsmanship

By Joseph Sunde Throughout its history, the American economy has transitioned from agrarian to industrial to...

November 10, 2015

What Christians Should Know About Consumption

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Consumerism Gone Wild....

October 2015

October 27, 2015

The Moral Dimension of Work

By James V. Schall “The moral foundation of political economy,” to use Lord Acton’s phrase, rests...

October 26, 2015

Life in Exile: Bringing Peace and Prosperity to Rural New York

By Evan Koons We’ve got another testimony for you. This one is from Judilynn Niedercorn...

October 13, 2015

Cultural Task #1: Crucify Our Incipient Darwinism

By Joseph Sunde One of the long-running mistakes of the church has been its various...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

The Trinity in the Household

By Evan Koons Our mailbox keeps on getting filled with letters from you, and all...

September 16, 2015

FLOW Gift Pack: Now Available on RightNow Media

The Acton Institute’s latest film series, For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles,...

September 14, 2015

Psalm 19: What Is Human Flourishing?

By Joe Carter The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society...

September 11, 2015

‘Crucified Love’ — The Human Side of the Greek Crisis

By Dylan Pahman In Thessaloniki, Greece, Fr. Eleftherios pulls down from the wall behind him...

September 10, 2015

Work Plants the Seed; Civilization Reaps the Harvest

By Lester DeKoster The following is an adapted excerpt from Work: The Meaning of Your Life by...

September 09, 2015

What a Fingerless Goldsmith Can Teach Us About the Mirage of Disability

By Joseph Sunde Annette Gabbedy is a business owner and an expert designer and goldsmith. She was also...

September 03, 2015

Work: When the Journey is Too Much

By Evan Koons Work, by its very nature, is gift-giving! It is is a mysterious collaboration of harmony...

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 18, 2015

5 Things Craigslist Teaches Us About The Beauty of Trade

By Joseph Sunde I’ve been a Craigslist fan for years, using it for everything from snagging free...

August 17, 2015

The Messy Vlog

By Evan Koons There are not a lot of differences between family and manure (or...