I was born in Kansas, a son of the prairie. I worked alongside my parents and siblings on the family farm. I learned early the importance of family...
I used to call my former financial advisor every few weeks to ask him, “What am I worth today?” My advisor is a great guy, and he performed...
Martin Luther once said that if he could understand “Our Father,” the first two words of the Lord’s Prayer, as Christ did, the rest of his life in...
Tomorrow’s holiday presents us with an opportunity to reflect on the biblical view of freedom and its implications for our lives. Freedom in the Bible begins as inner...
Why not socialism? A right use of freedom has tended to encourage human dignity, creativity and flourishing. But why should we care about those things? Why value human...
Vocation, meaning “calling,” can come in unexpected forms. For women, especially, we find that our callings are not monolithic, but an organic collection of intertwining roles, various callings...
In the early 21st century, there are few ideas that can be identified as universal. Few ideas span multiple disciplines of human knowledge, from philosophy to economics, from...
As we look at the first five days of creation in Genesis, the phrase “And God saw that it was good” pops up four times (Genesis 1:10, 12,...
All work has dignity because it reflects God’s image in us, and also because the material creation we are called to care for is good. The Greeks saw...
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