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Category Archives: Economic Development
What Makes Development Happen?
When I first began working for a relief and development organization, I began to wrestle with the question “Why are some nations rich and some poor?” I came to realize that poverty is not caused by a lack of resources. … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Economic Development, Imago Dei, Resources, Worldview & Development Resources
Tagged Development, human, Poverty, Worldview
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“SOCIAL JUSTICE” Means Freedom to Work
The phrase “Right to Work” has received lots of press lately. And the Bible has something important to say about work. In fact, God’s view of work is related to His view of compassion. In two recent posts we highlighted … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Compassion, Culture, Freedom, Social justice
Tagged Business, creator, Freedom, work
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Why Christian Couples Should Have Children
Some time back I was talking to a young man who had married about a year earlier. The conversation turned to children and he remarked that they weren’t sure they were going to have kids. I gently reminded him that … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Culture, Family, Population
Tagged children, Culture, marriage, population
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THANKSGIVING for the Gift of Time
Thanksgiving is a great season to ponder the gift of time. Especially sins wasted time can never be regained. Time is a gift from God. We are given 24 hours in our day, 7 days in the week, 52 weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Resources
Tagged Thanksgiving, value of time, wasted time, youth
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Democratic Capitalism: Friend of Social Justice
We’ve written often about the true nature of compassion, or social justice. The DNA believes that social justice means loving like God does. It includes a call to suffering with one’s poor neighbors. As we have written (here and here and here), this is … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Social justice
Tagged Bible, Capitalism, milton friedman, social justice
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No GOD, No HOPE: How Atheism Ambushed Optimism in the West
Welfare instead of wealth creation is the legacy of atheism in the West. The populations of the world [will] increase in geometric proportions while the food resources available for them [will] increase only in arithmetic proportions. That famous prediction, from … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Resources
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It’s the Culture, Stupid: Romney’s Firestorm
A high-profile debate has begun over the relationship between culture and development. While speaking in Jerusalem, presumptive Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney cited The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. The book’s author, Dr. David Landis, is Professor Emeritus of Economic … Continue reading
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CULTURE Still Matters!
As most of our readers know, the Disciple Nations Alliance was born at the intersection of two seemingly unrelated issues: the more “philosophical” concept of worldview and the very practical world of poverty. We also have argued that culture matters … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Development, Resources
Tagged Culture, Development, Poverty, Victor Davis Hanson
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Is it Immoral to Have Children?
“If we all saw the harm we were doing by having children and put a stop to it, within a century or so the world’s population would drop to zero.” So writes Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, arguing in … Continue reading
Wealth Creation: The Theological Dimension
One of the books that most shaped my work on Discipling the Nations was The Creation of Wealth by Brian Griffiths. Griffiths has been Dean of the City University Business School in London, a director of the Bank of England. … Continue reading
