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August 2015

August 11, 2015

The High Price of Human Trafficking

By Elise Hilton "Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society,...

August 11, 2015

Chalk Art For the Life of the World

By Joseph Sunde In his review of the Acton Institute’s film series, For the Life of the World:...

August 10, 2015

Retrenchment, Revision, and Renewal: 3 Futures for Evangelicalism in America

This post originally appeared as part of a Patheos symposium on the future evangelicalism. It has been modified...

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

A Testimony of Conscience and Conviction in the Workplace

By Joseph Sunde Hands On Originals is a small printing company in Lexington, Kentucky, that, up...

July 03, 2015

Celebrating the Things of the Spirit: Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence

By Joseph Sunde Each Independence Day, I make a point of re-reading President Calvin Coolidge’s speech...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

For This Car Wash, Autism is a ‘Key Competitive Advantage’

By Joseph Sunde “We view autism as one of our key competitive advantages,” says Tom...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Work and the Fabric of Civilization

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

May 19, 2015

Dignity: A Dinosaur

By Dylan Pahman What does human dignity look like in real life? A decade ago...

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...

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 21, 2015

Smitty the Artisan Bricklayer

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

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...

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 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 18, 2015

Restaurant Owner with Down Syndrome Shares His Gift

By Joseph Sunde At 14 years old, Tim Harris dreamed of owning his own restaurant....

February 04, 2015

The 7 Best Super Bowl Commercials About Vocation and Stewardship

By Joe Carter Contrary to the trite assertion made every year by people who don’t...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

The Useless Video

By Evan Koons What does it take to truly behold? What does it mean to...

November 2014

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 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 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 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 01, 2014

‘Abraham Kuyper Goes Pop’ in FLOW

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

August 2014

August 27, 2014

What Is ‘For the Life of the World’?

By Evan Koons There’s a number of ways you could have heard about For the Life...