Are the notions of suffering and Christian flourishing incompatible? Can Christians flourish while they suffer? These are difficult questions needing to be answered if we are to have...
Poverty is a signal of the failure to acquire suitable resources for the achievement of one’s ends. Since life in this world is always marked by the limitation...
We live in a strange paradox. Our cultural narratives are comprised of concepts like “rugged individualism,” “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” and “every man for himself.” Independence...
No one of goodwill is unconcerned about poverty. When we see poor people struggling in life we all instantly sympathize with their plight. We are also moved with...
The Bible talks about happiness, but defines it differently than our culture. When the Bible mentions happiness, it is speaking of something that is self-contained. The happiness the...
People want to flourish. Aristotle surmised that the most basic longing people have is for eudaimonia, usually translated as happiness but perhaps better understood as contentedness of mind...
We’re in the middle of exploring how the church can respond to today’s technological advances. Today we want to look at the positive changes being brought about by...
Religious freedom bears implications for our lives, just like the biblical view of freedom and economic freedom. In fact, religious freedom is entwined with these other freedoms. The...
I’ve been reading a lot about creativity lately, and in the course of my reading I’ve come across an essay by Gregory Wolfe entitled “Art, Faith, and the...
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