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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...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

Stewarding Retirement: Why a Christian’s Work Never Ends

By Joseph Sunde As Christians in the modern economy, we face a constant temptation to...

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...

June 2016

June 14, 2016

3 Things to Know About Stewardship

By Joe Carter Note: Please forgive the self-promotion, but since my new book — the NIV...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

A Charismatic Approach to Work

By Paul Graves What are we called to do with our lives? This question permeates our...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Finding Meaning and Beauty as a Fast Food Worker

By Joseph Sunde “This is not what I thought I’d be doing at twenty-seven.” So...

April 07, 2016

The Disabled Deserve the Dignity of Work

By Joe Carter Last week, Hillary Clinton became the first major presidential candidate to ever...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Creating Value for the Glory of God

By Joseph Sunde The real estate crisis led to plenty of finger-pointing and blame-shifting, but...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Living in the Mystery of Kingdom Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde When it comes to economic stewardship, Christians are called to a frame of...

February 11, 2016

Kitchen Redemption: From Spiritual Hunger to Second Chances

By Sarah Stanley The atmosphere at Edwins is calm and casual three hours before opening...

February 09, 2016

Music Box: A Parable on Finding Joy at Work (and in Life)

By Joseph Sunde When struggling with work that wounds — work that is “cross-bearing, self-denying,...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Executive Stewardship: Where Work and Wage Meet

The following is an adapted excerpt from Work: The Meaning of Your Life by Lester DeKoster. It...

January 18, 2016

Hot Fries and the End of Work

By James Bruce “The end of work” means at least two different things. The phrase...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

The Camel’s Hump: Rudyard Kipling on Idleness and Hard Work

By Joseph Sunde The other night, I sat down with my kids to read one...

December 02, 2015

Why Being Poor Is Too Expensive

By Joe Carter In the critically acclaimed, though rarely seen, movie Killer of Sheep (1978) there’s a...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Unemployed at Thanksgiving

By Joe Carter For many people the holiday season is their favorite time of the...

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 20, 2015

Lester DeKoster’s 3 Dimensions of Work

By Joseph Sunde Lester DeKoster’s short book, Work: The Meaning of Your Life, sets forth a profound...

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 29, 2015

Show Me the Way to Poverty

By Dylan Pahman In a recent speech in Bolivia, Pope Francis voiced his indictment of what...

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 14, 2015

Nurture in the Economy of Love: Insights on Parental Discipleship

By Charlie Self The spate of Planned Parenthood videos raises many issues, one of which...

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...

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...

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 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:...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Entrepreneurial Stewardship: Owner Gives Away Millions to Employees

By Sarah Stanley Employees of the Huizenga Automation Group got a great surprise last spring....

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 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...