Pondering

By Joe Carter

In 1958, Leonard Read published his famous essay, “I, Pencil.” The original essay was written from the perspective of a pencil, explaining why it is as much a creation of God as a tree:

By Joseph Sunde

For most musicians, the prospect of a long and stable career in the arts is a lifelong dream. For those who actually “make it,” however, aspirations can sometimes shift in surprising ways.

By Jordan Ballor

Something as mundane as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has something profound to teach us about the social nature of the human person. We were, to put it bluntly, made to trade. God created us to live in community with one another and placed within us a disposition both to give and receive good things from each other.

By Joseph Sunde

When we think about “stewardship,” our minds will often revert to the material and predictable. We think about money or the allocation of resources. We think about growing crops or creating goods or financial investment and generosity.

By Joseph Sunde

Despite the widespread complaints about the attitudes, ethics, and attention spans of millennials, it can be easy to forget the failures of generations gone by.

By Joseph Sunde

One of the long-running mistakes of the church has been its various confinements of cultural engagement to particular spheres (e.g. churchplace ministry) or selective “uses” (e.g. evangelistic conversion). But even if we manage to broaden the scope of our stewardship — recognizing that God has called us to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty across all spheres of creation — our imaginations will still require a strong injection of the transformative power of Jesus.

By Abraham Kuyper

At the start of the new year I wanted to put this question to you before the face of God: What should be the goal of university study and the goal of living and working in the sacred domain of scholarship? I wanted to see whether I might perhaps rouse in some of you a more sanctified passion.

By Dylan Pahman

The term “Good Samaritan” does not appear in the Bible, but it has become the common name for the answer Jesus gave to the question, “And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) In our time, “Good Samaritan” is a common idiom for a charitable person, especially someone who would do as the Samaritan in Jesus’s parable did:

By Joseph Sunde

Global poverty is on the decline. Technological progress is pacing at break-neck speed. Freedom and opportunity are spreading across the world. And yet our political classes and popular masses continue to preach of impending doom.

Why do we have so much pessimism in an age of such pronounced prosperity?

By Joseph Sunde