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November 2016

November 23, 2016

What Christians Can Learn from Adam Smith’s ‘Paradox of Value’

By Joseph Sunde In a new video from TED Ed, Akshita Agarwal provides a quick...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Seeking Justice Must Always Be Personal

By Joseph Sunde Conversations about justice tend to quickly devolve into debates over top-down solutions...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Calvin Coolidge and a Thanksgiving of Abundance

By Ray Nothstine My pastor once made the point that the more secular we become as 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...

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 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 23, 2015

These Prisoners Are Finding Purpose Through Welding (And So Could You)

By Joseph Sunde With the rise of the information economy, many millennials have steered clear...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Lunchbox Markets: A Moral Tale

By Dylan Pahman In the land of PB&J, the girl with a peanut butter and...

July 14, 2015

A Testimony of Conscience and Conviction in the Workplace

By Joseph Sunde Hands On Originals is a small printing company in Lexington, Kentucky, that, up...

July 08, 2015

Work and Prayer: Of Coins, Sheep, and Men

By Jordan Ballor One of the most famous stories from the Bible is that of...

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 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...

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...

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...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

The Wondering Wanderer

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

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Beauty – an Excerpt from von Balthasar

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

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...