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December 2016

December 14, 2016

Lessons in Humility from the Christ Child

By Evan Koons As Christmas approaches, let us remember and rejoice. The Savior has been born!...

January 2016

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 12, 2016

The Trinity and Human Flourishing: A New Ode to Joy

By Charlie Self Followers of Jesus worship a God who is at once the Almighty...

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,...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Call of the Martian

By Jordan Ballor I recently saw The Martian and was struck by the number of resonant themes...

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 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...

August 2015

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:...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Finding Flourishing in Japanese-American Internment Camps

By Elise Hilton It is a disturbing part of American history: the internment of American...

July 22, 2015

Makoto Fujimura on Cultivating the Imagination

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

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

By Evan Koons So, while I was out making gratuitous things (there’s this new project...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

The Church: Christ’s Body Offered to the Father

By Evan Koons Remember this: the church is the body of Christ, given as a...

May 08, 2015

Celebrating the Work of Mothers

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

February 2015

February 20, 2015

The Wondering Wanderer

The following clip is excerpted from Episode 6: The Economy of Wonder, part of the film...

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 20, 2015

The Useless Video

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

January 14, 2015

Wonder Rush – Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

By Evan Koons In keeping with the Economy of Wonder, enjoy Dr. Peter Kreeft pontificating...

December 2014

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,...

December 04, 2014

Beauty – an Excerpt from von Balthasar

"Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Beauty is the last thing which...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Knowledge: Something or Someone?

By Evan Koons Scrolling through Facebook last week, I stumbled on a meme that I...

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...

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 06, 2014

Graceful Marketing in a Broken World

By Jordan Ballor In his reflections on art and common grace, Abraham Kuyper affirmed that “the world of...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

‘Work Is a Good Thing for Man’

By Elise Hilton I was transfixed by this video the other day. The simplicity of...

October 09, 2014

Walking on Water

By Evan Koons World-renowned fine artist, and special guest in Episode 6 of For the...