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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...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

The Camel’s Hump: Rudyard Kipling on Idleness and Hard Work

By Joseph Sunde The other night, I sat down with my kids to read one...

December 02, 2015

Why Being Poor Is Too Expensive

By Joe Carter In the critically acclaimed, though rarely seen, movie Killer of Sheep (1978) there’s a...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Marriage as Cornerstone: How the Family Is a Foundation for Flourishing

By Joseph Sunde With the expansion of economic freedom and the resulting prosperity, we’ve reached...

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 14, 2015

Nurture in the Economy of Love: Insights on Parental Discipleship

By Charlie Self The spate of Planned Parenthood videos raises many issues, one of which...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

The Messy Vlog

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

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:...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Have Christian Female Entrepreneurs Changed The World?

By Elise Hilton Christina M. Weber thinks so. She says that Christian women have been...

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...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Celebrating the Work of Mothers

By Joseph Sunde In a stunning video, Matt Bieler strings together beautiful images and a few...

May 08, 2015

Boyhood, the Masculine Spirit, and the Formative Power of Work

By Joseph Sunde The modern age has introduced many blessings when it comes to child-rearing and...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Bring Back Childhood Chores: How Hard Work Cultivates Character

By Joseph Sunde Today’s parents are obsessed with setting their kids on strategic paths to...

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 09, 2015

Why Gender Matters for Christian Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde “By putting male and female together as the image of God, there’s...

February 2015

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...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

A Challenge to ‘Work-Life Balance’

By Joseph Sunde Upon the birth of our third child, I took a brief “vacation”...

October 2014

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,...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

The Economy of Love…Magnified

By Evan Koons When thinking about the Economy of Love and living a life of...

September 23, 2014

Fatherhood and the Weight of Work in the Home

By Joseph Sunde Mothers who have achieved success in corporate America are often asked how...