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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...

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...

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...

March 2016

March 02, 2016

3 Lessons on Social Institutions from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

By Jordan Ballor Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their daughter may indeed be...

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...

November 04, 2015

TerraCyle Founder: ‘I Want To Make A Lot Of Money Doing Good’

By Elise Hilton Starting a business is a risky undertaking. You need money, a product or...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

The Moral Dimension of Work

By James V. Schall “The moral foundation of political economy,” to use Lord Acton’s phrase, rests...

October 19, 2015

6 Quotes: Angus Deaton on Poverty

By Joe Carter Last week, Princeton economist Angus Deaton won the Nobel prize in economic sciences for...

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...

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 03, 2015

Celebrating the Things of the Spirit: Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence

By Joseph Sunde Each Independence Day, I make a point of re-reading President Calvin Coolidge’s speech...

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 03, 2015

The Monk as Merchant: Economic Wisdom from a Desert Hermit

By Dylan Pahman Before Max Weber ever conducted his study of the “Protestant ethic” of hard work...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

Firstfruits Economics

By Joseph Sunde “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Motherhood Is More than a Job

By Joseph Sunde I have plenty of hesitations about heeding various calls to “work-life balance,” mostly because they...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Communion and Consumerism

By Rev. Gregory Jensen The Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, made a number of...