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How Can We Practice Better Stewardship?
Stewardship is a big topic in churches and other Christian circles. Understanding economics can help us practice better stewardship, but exactly how can we use concepts like trade and “comparative...
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Economics, Politics, and the Kingdom of God
The journey we are on in life matters for the future we are building. It matters for the work God has called us to accomplish. Using our skills and talents, we are making contributions to the...
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Salt, Light, and A Stockbroker: A Story of Flourishing
How can the skills needed to be a stockbroker be used to save the lives of nearly 700 children? It all has to do with being salt and light in our vocations, and how being salt and light helps bring...
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Do You Have a Career with a Cause?
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. - Ephesians 2:10 I was flipping through T.V. channels the other day, and a commercial...
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The Price of Equality
Part 6 in a series on Income Inequality We hear a lot of talk about making people more equal, particularly as it relates to their incomes. A recent article equated income inequality in America to a...
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Why I Am Not A Plumber
Part 5 in a series on Five Tools for Thinking Biblically About Faith, Work, & Economics Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that...
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The Price of Equality, Part Two
Part 7 in a series on Income Inequality Last week, we began talking about the price of equality by discussing the biblical principles that frame how we think about income inequality. What the Bible...
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We Work to Change the World
Part 2 in a series on Economic Videos Every Christian Should Watch Have you ever thought, “It’s just a job!”? Have you ever been in the middle of your day, stressed out and in a panic over what you...
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The Summer of Discontent: the Millennial Generation’s Search for Meaningful Work
With due respect to Shakespeare and John Steinbeck, for millennials, the “winter of our discontent” has continued into summer. At least, that’s the impression one gets after reading the latest jobs...
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iPhones, Economics, and Absolute Truth
I always want to have the latest technology, so when the iPhone 5S is finally released this fall, I will probably buy one. My sister, on the other hand, will likely spend her savings on the latest...
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C.S. Lewis and Community
As Americans, we value the freedom to choose. We honor the initiative and individuality of each person. We value independence and self-reliance, and this is a good thing to some extent. Yet our culture...
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Redeeming the Time at Work
One more hour. It wasn’t that I disliked my job. But after a long day of filing papers at my internship, I was losing my edge. My sense of urgency about my work was dissipating. I felt guilty about...
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Here’s How the Faith and Work Message Can Help Close the Unemployment Gap
Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment statistics for July. Those who were looking for marked growth will be disappointed. In a nutshell: The unemployment rate remains above...
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The Liberating Effects of Scarcity
Wonder Woman by Kate Harris is my favorite book in the Barna Group’s Frames series. In the book, Harris cites a statistic with which I and a lot of women resonate: 72 percent of women say they are...
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