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Economy of Wisdom: 4 Questions of Christian Education

By Anthony Bradley One of the advantages of living in a free society is that parents have multiple options for how they can educate their children, including enrolling them in religious education. Christian education is unique in that teachers can integrate faith and learning in the classroom to unlock academic disciplines from mere materialistic… Read More

The Fruit of Our Labor Is Fellowship

By Joseph Sunde “The fruit of our labor is fellowship. It’s community. It’s relationship.” Global trade has suddenly emerged as a hot conversation in the current election cycle, with candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders leading the charge toward severe protectionism, while other candidates quietly shrug and nod their heads. Voters of… Read More

Working for Our Neighbor: Martin Luther on the Purpose of Vocation

By Gene Veith The following is an adapted excerpt from Working for Our Neighbor, Gene Veith’s Lutheran primer on vocations, economics, and ordinary life. It is reprinted here with permission from Christian’s Library Press. For Martin Luther, vocation is nothing less than the locus of the Christian life. God works in and through vocation, but he… Read More

Kuyper on Loving the Hunt of Scholarship

By Joseph Sunde In “Scholastica II,” a convocation address delivered to Amsterdam’s Free University in 1900 (now translated under the title, Scholarship), Abraham Kuyper explores the ultimate goal of “genuine study,” asking, “Is it to seek or find?” Alluding to those who search for the sake of searching, Kuyper concludes that “seeking should be… Read More

Everything Really Is Awesome

By Jordan Ballor There’s much for lovers of faith and freedom to appreciate in The LEGO Movie, a film that aptly captures the playfulness and creativity that have been identified with the little plastic bricks for decades. One of the more memorable lines from the film is the chorus to a little ditty that recurs throughout: “Everything is awesome… Read More

Wasteful Extravagance: Sara Groves on the Economy of Wonder

By Joseph Sunde “God somehow demands of us so much more than this transactional nature. It is really about the gift that we’ve been given, and the only response we can give back is with extravagance, with gratuitous beauty.” –Makoto Fujimura We live in a society that has grown increasingly transactional in its way of thinking. Everything we… Read More