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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...

December 02, 2015

All Is Gift: Buy-One, Give-One Holiday Special!

By Evan Koons As Christmas approaches and we focus on being generous to those we love...

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 26, 2015

Life in Exile: Bringing Peace and Prosperity to Rural New York

By Evan Koons We’ve got another testimony for you. This one is from Judilynn Niedercorn...

October 13, 2015

Immigrants, Refugees, and the Conversionary Tale of Jean Valjean

By Evan Koons As heated talks on immigration flare up and the horrible injustice of...

October 05, 2015

Now Available: Lester DeKoster’s ‘Work,’ Re-Issued with New Afterword

By Joseph Sunde Originally written in 1982, Lester DeKoster’s small book,Work: The Meaning of Your...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

FLOW Gift Pack: Now Available on RightNow Media

The Acton Institute’s latest film series, For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles,...

September 03, 2015

Work: When the Journey is Too Much

By Evan Koons Work, by its very nature, is gift-giving! It is is a mysterious collaboration of harmony...

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

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 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...

July 2015

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 08, 2015

Justice Requires Love – Watch

By Evan Koons It’s been a heart-wrenching few weeks. We have witnessed horrific acts of...

July 08, 2015

Unsanctified Mercy: Integrating Compassion and Conviction for Human Flourishing

By Charlie Self Compassion is a marvelous virtue. Feeling concern for others and acting sacrificially...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Living Out Creative Service

By Evan Koons I overheard a story recently at Acton University (a 4-day conference from Acton Institute that offers a...

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 26, 2015

FLOW: We Want Your Stories!

By Evan Koons Has For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles inspired you,...

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 05, 2015

Dig Deeper: The Writers and Thinkers Behind ‘FLOW’

By Evan Koons Hello Fr-angers and St-riends, Perhaps you’ve completed For the Life of the...

April 2015

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...

April 14, 2015

Is There Hope for the Workplace?

By Peter Johnson Bill Dalgetty’s Hope for the Workplace: Christ in You is rich with stories of...

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...

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 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 03, 2015

Lived Memory – Part I

By Evan Koons I think I was in kindergarten. It might have been preschool (both...

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 11, 2015

The Beauty of Oyster Farming

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

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...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

“All is Gift” Old Cell Phone Giveaway

Start your New Year with a GIFT! Send us your old phone, and we will send a...