8 Lessons on Work and Stewardship from Disney’s ‘Silly Symphonies’
By Joseph Sunde Teaching our children about the value and virtues of hard work and sound stewardship is an important part of parenting, and in a privileged age where opportunity and prosperity...
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By Joseph Sunde “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce.” –Proverbs 3:9 In his latest video, Dan Stevers highlights the importance of giving God our first and our...
View ArticleThe Disease of Self-Chosen Sacrifice
By Joseph Sunde In our efforts to serve others and do good in the world, we humans have a remarkable tendency to fall short, no matter how carefully constructed or well intended our plans and designs...
View ArticleHow Hiring a Convicted Felon Changed a Business and Saved a Life
By Elise Hilton No doubt about it: hiring a convicted felon is a gamble. For someone out of prison, it can seem as if no one wants you. You’re too much of a risk. Then someone takes that risk. And it...
View ArticleUnsanctified Mercy: Integrating Compassion and Conviction for Human Flourishing
By Charlie Self Compassion is a marvelous virtue. Feeling concern for others and acting sacrificially — especially on behalf of those that cannot return the favor — reveals mature character and...
View ArticleShow Me the Way to Poverty
By Dylan Pahman In a recent speech in Bolivia, Pope Francis voiced his indictment of what he calls “the globalization of exclusion and indifference.” Speaking of what he believes to be problems...
View ArticleThe Moral Dimension of Work
By James V. Schall “The moral foundation of political economy,” to use Lord Acton’s phrase, rests on the connection of liberty with right, of right with duty, of duty with leisure and delight, and of...
View ArticleHow Churches Can Help the 93 Percent of U.S. Counties That Haven’t Recovered...
By Joe Carter “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction,” said President Obama in this year’s State of the Union address. Technically, the president is correct: The...
View ArticleHow Growth Rates Lead to Flourishing
By Joe Carter Why do some countries grow richer faster than others? How can we explain wealth disparities between countries? The answer: Growth rates. Economist Alex Tabarrok explains how even small...
View ArticleThe Higher Calling of the ‘Dismal Science’ of Economics
By Dylan Pahman Economist and theologian Paul Heyne once asked the question, “Are economists basically immoral?” He asked this because economists have a frustrating tendency to interrupt the high moral...
View ArticleThomas Sowell on the Origins of Prosperity
By Joseph Sunde “The mundane progress driven by ordinary economic and social processes in a free society becomes dramatic only when its track record is viewed in retrospect over a span of years.”...
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