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November 2016

November 30, 2016

Are Christianity and Communism Mutually Exclusive?

By Sarah Stanley Did Pope Francis just publicly endorse Communism? Recent comments have prompted many to...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Why Religious Liberty Cannot Prosper without Economic Liberty

By Jay Richards In recent years, religious freedom in the United States has been treated...

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...

December 2015

December 10, 2015

The Worst Christmas Song Ever

By Jordan Ballor At this point in the holiday season, whether we like it or...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

There is No Such Thing as ‘The Poor’

By Victor Claar With the recent news that Angus Deaton of Princeton University had won...

October 2015

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...

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...

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 24, 2015

3 Things I Wish Pope Francis Knew About A Free Economy

By Joe Carter Pope Francis has said that he’s generally “allergic” to financial matters. Yet...

August 11, 2015

The High Price of Human Trafficking

By Elise Hilton "Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society,...

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 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...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

For This Car Wash, Autism is a ‘Key Competitive Advantage’

By Joseph Sunde “We view autism as one of our key competitive advantages,” says Tom...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Dignity: A Dinosaur

By Dylan Pahman What does human dignity look like in real life? A decade ago...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Pope Francis and the Idea of Christian Poverty

By Oskari Juurikkala To provide a synthesis of Pope Francis’s thinking on the economy is both...

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 09, 2015

Why Gender Matters for Christian Stewardship

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

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 18, 2015

Restaurant Owner with Down Syndrome Shares His Gift

By Joseph Sunde At 14 years old, Tim Harris dreamed of owning his own restaurant....

February 03, 2015

Why a Christian Anthropology Matters for Liberty and Love

By Charlie Self Dorothy Sayers, playwright, novelist and Christian scholar, wrote an important work in...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

The Image of God and You

By Jordan Ballor Conversations about human dignity often, and rightly, refer to the biblical concept...