What does it take to sustain freedom? Freedom isn’t the natural condition of fallen human beings. Our default setting is bondage, either internally through various addictions and idolatries, or externally though tyranny. Freedom is fragile and requires a precise ideological ecosystem to sustain. As we often say, ideas have consequences.
What’s the place of work in God’s economy? Thailand’s economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the last four decades, “Poverty has declined substantially over the last 30 years,” the World Bank reports, “from 67% in 1986 to 7.2% in 2015 during periods of high growth and rising agricultural prices.”
Genesis 1:26-27 reveals, among many other truths, that before the creation of the world, the three persons of the Godhead lived in community, communication and communion. In John 17:24 Jesus says that the Father loved the Son “before the foundation of the world.” Being made in the image of God,
Evolutionists explain poverty in material terms Given that more Christians are alive than at any time in world history, that more churches (and more large churches) exist, why do our nations remain so broken? Secularism says that the roots of human brokenness in its many manifestations (hunger, poverty, injustice, environmental
Ephesians 6:4:4, Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [parorgizō – make angry or exasperate] but bring them up in the discipline [paideia – discipline, training] and instruction [nouthesia – warning, admonition] of the Lord. Wise words, from an ancient voice. I am sure I exasperated my children more
Are you seeing reality as God made it? Every culture has a dominant worldview that shapes its beliefs, institutions and practices. After a class in Sierra Leone completed a microbiology course, one student told the teacher, “I know that you taught us about polio, but do you want to know
Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you” (Matt. 26:11). Two millennia later, 815 million people lack enough food to lead a healthy, active life.[i] Nine million people die every year of hunger or hunger-related causes.[ii] These numbers are down from forty years ago—that’s good. But this level of
In part one we wrote about Jesus’ parable of the vineyard to show that God invested his creation with metaphysical capital. In this post we will elaborate on another kind of capital, moral capital. Michael Novak, the economist and economic philosopher, describes the need for a moral ecology, a systemic
God invented capital Mark 12:1-12 is a parable about accountability, theft and judgment. It also reveals something about resources. And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower,
Last September we published David Evans’s article, Ten Biblical Principles for Agriculture. This post has generated lots of views, so we want to harness that interest by offering an animated version here. Click the image below (or go here if the image does not appear). David’s full paper is available
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