March 10, 2015
March 05, 2015
Is God opposed to Christians making lots of money?
“Being Godly doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be wealthy. God makes no such guarantees in the Bible, so goodbye, prosperity gospel…[But] God clearly is not opposed to wealth in a kind of blanket way. Continue Reading...
March 04, 2015
Kuyper: God Crowns Creation With Humanity
God has clearly given us dominion over creation, yet a variety of divisions and distortions persist. Radical environmentalists dream of a world without us, even as hyper-consumerists wield God’s call as justification for undue exploitation and self-seeking. Continue Reading...
February 18, 2015
Does Manual Labor Have a Place in the Faith and Work Discussion?
February 17, 2015
Unemployment Tied to One in Five Suicides
February 13, 2015
Sloth: When We Reject What God Wants Us To Be
February 11, 2015
Book Giveaway: Win All 4 Primers on Faith, Work, and Economics!
Through Christian’s Library Press, the Acton Institute has published four tradition-specific primers on faith, work, and economics, including Baptist, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Reformed perspectives. Each offers a distinct contribution to the subject, and when taken together provides a rich and coherent framework for Christian stewardship. Continue Reading...
February 10, 2015
Mike Rowe on the minimum wage: There’s no such thing as a ‘bad job’
In the latest addition to Mike Rowe’s growing catalog of pointed Facebook responses, the former Dirty Jobs host tackles a question on the minimum wage, answering a man named “Darrell Paul,” who asks:
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and hour. Continue Reading...
February 09, 2015
5 Reasons Why Christians Should Care About Economics
I recently pointed to a helpful talk by Greg Forster to highlight how understanding economics is essential for developing a holistic theology of work, vocation, and stewardship. Economics connects the personal to the public, and prods our attentions and imaginations to the broader social order. Continue Reading...
February 06, 2015
C.S. Lewis on Vocation in the Economy of Wisdom
In Abraham Kuyper’s newly translated Scholarship, he explores the Christian’s role in the Economy of Wisdom. Addressing students of Free University in Amsterdam, he asks, “What should be the goal of university study and the goal of living and working in the sacred domain of scholarship?” Continue Reading...