Like most things over time, the popular attitudes toward work and calling have not been the same throughout history. In fact, they have changed quite a bit over...
What if we had empirical, long-term, statistically significant evidence that Christianity increased the general well-being of surrounding populations? It turns out we do. The basic assumption of many...
“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind,” writes Mark Noll in the opening of his classic book The Scandal...
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15). In October of this...
America’s vaunted Protestant work ethic is getting a makeover: Now it might be more of an atheist work ethic. So begins a 2014 article by Kimberly Winston about...
Martin Luther never met Johann Sebastian Bach. The two Germans were born more than 200 years apart. But without Luther, there would have been no Bach. At 48...
Dorothy L. Sayers was a mystery writer, dramatist, and faithful member of the Church of England for the first half of the 20th century. She is well known...
I read an interesting fact the other day in sociologist Rodney Stark’s book, The Rise of Christianity. Stark claims that Christianity’s 40 percent growth per decade during the...
There is an important biblical idea that has great implications for our personal spirituality and public life in the church and in the world: the idea that every...
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