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Hasn’t Christianity Always Opposed Free Enterprise?
Part 7 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free Enterprise Hasn’t Christianity always opposed free enterprise? It’s easy to think so. In fact, my colleague, Anne Bradley,...
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Does Free Enterprise Lead to An Ugly Consumerist Culture?
Part 8 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free EnterpriseDoes free enterprise lead to an ugly consumerist culture? For many critics, the modern market economy is not a...
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Will We Use Up All Our Resources?
Part 9 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free Enterprise You’ve heard the warnings: the earth is overpopulated, and soon we’ll run out of food, farmland, and fuel. If...
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Are Markets An Example of Providence?
Part 10 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free Enterprise These past eight weeks we’ve looked at the eight most popular myths about wealth, poverty, and free...
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What Principles Are Important for Human Flourishing?
If properly understood, our vocations can help Christians impact our communities, our cities, and our world by helping restore the culture to the glory of God. - Hugh Whelchel, How Then Should We...
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Is The Image of God An Engine of Economic Progress?
On Tuesday, Dr. Anne Bradley outlined four essential elements to economic progress. Human beings are the engines of this economic progress, and it turns out that the Bible has a lot to say about this...
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A Wealth-Creating Vs. A Wealth-Hoarding Culture
A wealth-creating culture can be a sign of human flourishing, especially when a culture once in extreme poverty begins to create enough wealth to move beyond destitution. We should celebrate it when...
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How Should Christians Pursue the Common Good?
The late theologian and Christianity Today editor Carl Henry once called on Christians not to restrict the Christian life to evangelism alone, but also to engage the culture in the public square. We...
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The Biblical Roots of Private Property
Did you know that private property has biblical roots? It does, though many people don’t realize it. Property is rooted in the grand story of the Bible. It was given by God at creation, as a means by...
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Enterprise Is the Most “Effective Altruism”
Editor’s Note: One of the many issues Christians wrestle with is how to best answer the biblical imperative to care for the poor. From Genesis to Revelation, God’s abiding concern for the poor, and...
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A Christian Entrepreneur’s Story in The New York Times
Would you expect to read a story about a Christian entrepreneur who credits God with her ingenious idea to show up in The New York Times? Perhaps not, but that’s what happened a couple of weeks ago in...
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Evangelical Leader Preaches Pullback from Cultural Engagement?
A minor controversy erupted in October when the Wall Street Journal reported on its front page, “Evangelical Leader Preaches Pullback From Politics, Culture Wars.” The evangelical leader referred to...
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Bill Gates’ Plan to Improve the World
Bill Gates administering a polio vaccine to a child. Photo courtesy of the Gates Foundation The Bible has a lot to say about poverty and helping others. Proverbs 14:31 tells us, Whoever oppresses a...
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The Calling of the Christian Intellectual
Photo courtesy of Mer Chau If you’re someone who reads, writes, and thinks for a living, it’s easy to forget that your work is or should be a real vocation rather than merely an indulgence. And now...
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We are Characters in the Theater of the World
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Marshall We are, all of us, characters in the “theater of the world.” The phrase is from Swiss theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar, though the idea itself isn’t uniquely...
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What Does The Pope Say About “Capitalism?”
Photo courtesy of the Catholic Church (England and Wales) Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) has created a media firestorm, with far more heat than...
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New Report: Is the US Losing Its Freedom to Flourish?
During its twenty-year history, the Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom has put the US in the top ten. Last year, the US slipped to ninth place. Heritage has just released its 2014...
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The Morality of the National Debt
Is the national debt immoral? This is the question on the minds of many Christians lately. Christianity Today recently asked three thought leaders – David Gushee, Gary Moore, and Dr. Amy Black – about...
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