Joseph Sunde's work has appeared in venues such as the Foundation for Economic Education, First Things, The Christian Post, The Stream, Intellectual Takeout, Patheos, LifeSiteNews, The City, Charisma News, The Green Room, Juicy Ecumenism, Ethika Politika, Made to Flourish, and the Center for Faith and Work, as well as on PowerBlog. He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and four children.
Posts by Joseph Sunde
November 26, 2013
Christian’s Library Press has released the first in its series of English translations of Abraham Kuyper’s most famous work,
Common Grace, a three-volume work of practical public theology. This release,
Noah-Adam, is the first of three parts in Volume 1: The Historical Section.
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November 20, 2013
In his 2010 book,
Hipster Christianity, Brett McCracken explored the dynamics of a particular cultural movement in (and against) modern evangelicalism. In his new book,
Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism and Liberty, he pulls the lens back, focusing on how the church more broadly ought to approach culture, particularly when it comes to
consuming it.
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November 15, 2013
InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Blog recently posted two reviews of Abraham Kuyper’s
Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art, one from Dan Jesse, the other from David Carlson.
Carlson nicely summarizes some of the book’s key implications for the life of the believer:
One does not need to do Christian science or Christian art to be a faithful Christian in those domains.
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November 14, 2013
Over at Desiring God blog, Sam Crabtree offers 16 simple principles, each accompanied by Scripture, to help reorient our thinking about the work of our hands, particularly among those in executive and administrative roles.
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November 12, 2013
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John Bolt’s new book,
Economic Shalom, is now available from Christian’s Library Press.
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November 12, 2013
In a wide-ranging discussion of the Progressive Era in her new biography of Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes quotes a striking excerpt from a little-known speech by President William Howard Taft.
Given in the middle of the 1912 election, in which Taft competed (poorly) against Woodrow Wilson and former President Teddy Roosevelt, the speech focuses on the predominant themes and schemes of his opponents, handily highlighting their limits.
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November 08, 2013
In a new video from Dégagé Ministries, a non-profit based in Grand Rapids, Mich., Jim Wolf, a formerly homeless U.S. Army vet, receives a striking physical makeover. The video was created for a Veteran’s Day fundraising campaign designed to raise money for homeless and disadvantaged veterans.
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November 07, 2013
If you’ve raised multiple children, you’ve dealt with sibling bickering, particularly if said children are close in age. With a three-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl, both just 13 months apart, our family has suddenly reached a stage where sibling play can be either wholly endearing or down-right frightening.
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November 05, 2013
I recently shared a lengthy excerpt from
Faithful in All God’s House, highlighting the investment-return motif that appears throughout the Bible. “All of God’s gifts to mankind are as a divine investment on which the investor expects full return,” write Berghoef and DeKoster.
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November 01, 2013
Ever since the cancellation of Discovery Channel’s hit show
Dirty Jobs, former host Mike Rowe has been spreading his message more directly, challenging Americans on how they approach work and success.
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