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Is Free Enterprise Based on Greed?
Part 6 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free Enterprise Is free enterprise based on greed? Friends and foes of free enterprise often claim greed is its basis. Writer...
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Five Reasons Why Christians Should Care About Economic Freedom
This past week, I gave talks at the International Students for Liberty Conference and at Regent University about why Christians should care about economic freedom. What resonated with me most were the...
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Hasn’t Christianity Always Opposed Free Enterprise?
Part 7 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free Enterprise Hasn’t Christianity always opposed free enterprise? It’s easy to think so. In fact, my colleague, Anne Bradley,...
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Are Riches and Righteousness At Odds?
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. - Matthew 19:24 Christians often hear about how the Bible criticizes...
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How Does Pursuing Profit Fulfill the Cultural Mandate?
Part 10 in a series on Biblical Foundations of Economic Principles There are three misconceptions about profits that arise in most conversations I have with people about businesses seeking profit: 1....
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Does Free Enterprise Lead to An Ugly Consumerist Culture?
Part 8 in a series on Eight Most Popular Myths about Wealth, Poverty, and Free EnterpriseDoes free enterprise lead to an ugly consumerist culture? For many critics, the modern market economy is not a...
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Five Lessons for Our Lives from the Parable of the Talents
How should Christians think about work, success, and wealth? I was recently asked by byFaith magazine to write an article answering these tough questions. As I thought about how to approach these...
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What are the Economic Implications of Creation?
Part 4 in a series on Markets & Morality Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary, it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living...
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A Wealth-Creating Vs. A Wealth-Hoarding Culture
A wealth-creating culture can be a sign of human flourishing, especially when a culture once in extreme poverty begins to create enough wealth to move beyond destitution. We should celebrate it when...
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Enterprise Is the Most “Effective Altruism”
Editor’s Note: One of the many issues Christians wrestle with is how to best answer the biblical imperative to care for the poor. From Genesis to Revelation, God’s abiding concern for the poor, and...
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IFWE’s Midweek Memo – 06.26.13
Part 28 in a series on Midweek Memo Offering you the latest news, analysis, and opinion on all things faith, work, and economics. Towards the end of poverty The Economist Most of the credit […] must...
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Entrepreneurship in the Bible
Part 4 in a series on Entrepreneurship In previous posts in this series, I have made the argument that entrepreneurship is a creative act made possible by the creative impulse that God gave us. In...
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The Price of Equality
Part 6 in a series on Income Inequality We hear a lot of talk about making people more equal, particularly as it relates to their incomes. A recent article equated income inequality in America to a...
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Can Entrepreneurs Change the Way We Do Charity?
Part 7 in a series on Entrepreneurship The Bible is very clear about a believer’s obligation to help the poor. Scripture is replete with commands to help the poor, to visit and care for the...
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The Best Way to Help the Poor
Part 3 in a series on Economic Videos Every Christian Should Watch Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When...
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The Church, Work, and Economics
Part 10 in a series on Faces of Faith and Work Editor’s Note: Today’s post is the second part of our interview with Tanya Ross-Lane. In part one, Ross-Lane shared her experience struggling with...
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Five Insights About Private Property from Aquinas
Is private ownership of property contrary to human nature? Since the “earth is the Lord’s” (Psalm 24:1), it would seem that humans have no right to own anything. Is there a natural precedence to...
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For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty
Part 1 in a series on A Biblical Answer to Poverty Over two hundred years ago, Adam Smith wrote his most famous work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This book was...
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Who Are The Rich & The Poor?
Part 2 in a series on A Biblical Answer to Poverty Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of excerpts from IFWE’s forthcoming book, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty. Today...
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Are Economists Basically Immoral?
Part 3 in a series on How Markets Work Are economists basically immoral? This question is the title of a collection of essays written by the late economist and ordained minister Paul Heyne. While it is...
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