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December 2016

December 19, 2016

The 6 Elves of Capitalism

By Joseph Sunde In “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” the famous fairy tale by the Brothers...

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...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

What Is the Meaning of Work?

By Caroline Roberts Working comprises the bulk of most people’s adult lives. Unfortunately, many people...

December 2015

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...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

The Frontier Spirit of ‘The Martian’

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

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...

October 07, 2015

How God and Man Make a Sandwich

By Joe Carter In 1958, Leonard Read published his brilliant essay, “I, Pencil.” Read’s original essay...

September 2015

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...

August 2015

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...

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

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...

January 2015

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...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Gratification and Civilization

By Jordan Ballor On Christmas morning, millions of children all over the world will race downstairs...

December 12, 2014

Wounding Work: Creative Service as Cross Bearing

By Joseph Sunde In recent years, we’ve seen a renewed focus on the deeper value,...

December 09, 2014

How a Shoe Builds Civilization

By Joseph Sunde Can something as simple as a shoe build civilization? I recently had...