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Kingdom First: Why Christians Should Reject Nationalism and Globalism

By Joseph Sunde Throughout our debates over foreign policy, trade policy, immigration policy, and otherwise, the 2016 election has seen increasing concentrations and divides between nationalism and globalism, each blind in its own way. Those who promote a (supposedly) “America first” agenda, ignore the impacts to our neighbors across the globe,… Read More

Servant Leadership and Creative Service in a Louisiana Kitchen

By Sarah Stanley Good leadership involves a lot more than ordering underlings around. One prominent businesswoman, Cheryl A. Bachelder, realizes this, and has built her career on being a different sort of leader, yielding a long list of accomplishments. After becoming the CEO of a struggling restaurant chain, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, she… Read More

To Obey Is Better than Sacrifice: A Challenge to ‘Good Intentions’

By Joseph Sunde When decrying instances of do-gooder activism gone wrong, it’s become rather routine for critics to respond by saying, “good intentions aren’t enough.” And to a great extent, rightly so. Yet in addition to assessing and critiquing the outcomes of our actions, we should also pause and ask ourselves whether our “good intentions”… Read More

Christian Conscience: The Watchful Monitor of Stewardship

By Lester DeKoster and Gerard Berghoef Stewardship has a watchful monitor in the conscience. Consider carefully what the conscience does. We do not say, “what the conscience is.” Fruitless hours of speculation can be spent on what conscience is. It can be questioned whether or not all persons have a conscience, and if so whether it is acquired… Read More

A Higher Freedom: David Brooks on the Power of Christian Institutions

By Joseph Sunde We continue to see the expansion of freedom and economic prosperity around the world. Yet despite having enjoyed such freedom for centuries, the West is now stuck in a crisis of moral imagination. For all of its blessings, modernity has led many of us to pair our comfort and prosperity with a secular, naturalistic ethos,… Read More

Rediscovering Beauty: Flannery O’Conner on the Economy of Wonder

By Caroline Roberts An emphasis on the need for practical use is beneficial when applied to goods in the market, so as to meet the ever changing demands of the consumer. But the value of some goods cannot be reduced to a selling price. One such good is beauty. Although the market has a role to play in the creation of beautiful things, this… Read More