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June 2015

June 10, 2015

Love and Economics: From Contract to Cooperation

By Joseph Sunde The subject of contracts is not particularly romantic, which is part of...

June 08, 2015

Unemployment as Economic-Spiritual Indicator: May 2015 Report

By Joe Carter Series Note: Jobs are one of the most important aspects of a...

June 04, 2015

Dear Grads: Welcome To Work

By Elise Hilton If you’re a college grad, what was your first job out of...

June 03, 2015

Gift, Gratitude, and the Grace of Stewardship

By Jordan Ballor There’s a misunderstanding of the nature of gifts and giving that is...

June 02, 2015

Pentecost Reimagined: How the Spirit Reveals New Economies

By Charlie Self Pentecost Sunday: The Holy Spirit comes with tongues of fire and an “incendiary community” is...

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

Dignity: A Dinosaur

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

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...

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...

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 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 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 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 04, 2015

Sacrifice and Self-Interest in the Marketplace

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

February 2015

February 18, 2015

A Price Is a Signal Wrapped in an Incentive to Be Coordinated by God

By Joe Carter When Christians think of the majesty of God’s handiwork we tend to think...

February 12, 2015

Book Giveaway: Win All 4 Primers on Faith, Work, and Economics!

The Acton Institute has published four tradition-specific primers on faith, work, and economics, including Baptist, Wesleyan, Pentecostal,...

February 11, 2015

The Beauty of Oyster Farming

By Joseph Sunde The oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay has severely dwindled, amounting to less...

February 11, 2015

A Parable for the Unemployed

By Jordan Ballor The theme of work recurs and reverberates throughout the Christian scriptures. We...

February 03, 2015

Motherhood Is More than a Job

By Joseph Sunde I have plenty of hesitations about heeding various calls to “work-life balance,” mostly because they...

February 03, 2015

Why a Christian Anthropology Matters for Liberty and Love

By Charlie Self Dorothy Sayers, playwright, novelist and Christian scholar, wrote an important work in...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Communion and Consumerism

By Rev. Gregory Jensen The Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, made a number of...

January 15, 2015

God Is With You in the Workplace (Whether You Know It or Not)

This post is part of a symposium on vocation between the Patheos Faith and Work Channel and...

January 13, 2015

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

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