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Despite economic and social ills, blacks give Obama a pass
Government is neither designed nor equipped to create and sustain jobs, much less act as a parent to a fatherless child.The problem with compassionate conservatism
Even well-intentioned and seemingly benign public-private partnerships help facilitate dysfunctional families and suck the life out of private philanthropy.Ministers of common grace
Recognizing the validity of callings to all areas of life, including politics and business, would help us see how service in such realms can be truly other-directed and God glorifying.One percent or 33: America's real inequality problem
Occupy Wall Street has overlooked a statistic more predictive of economic success than being born to wealth.Food fights and free enterprise
It is sometimes said, following Milton Friedman’s insight, that business is not a friend to the free market, and the truth of this is no more evident than in recent battles between established restaurateurs and operators of mobile eateries.Contemplating Christmas
The challenge of Christmas is not to wait for a God Who with shouts, trumpets, and great fanfare will attract our attention, but to search for the One who comes discretely and must be carefully discerned in the midst of everyday lives.Patrick Henry warned us about extravagant government
Henry’s Christian worldview made him acutely sensitive to the risks of placing expansive power in human hands. Hoping that only ethical, public-spirited people would serve in national office was foolish, he believed. Henry would “never depend on so slender a protection as the possibility of being represented by virtuous men.”Eurocracy run amuck
The spirit of EU's leaders can be summed up in one sentence by Angela Merkel: “We must re-establish the primacy of politics over the market.”Occupy Wall Street: Shunning the lost sheep?
Even “the One Percent” are made in the image of God, and by His grace are capable of reforming any corruption they may have, apart from government coercion.Blue laws and Black Friday
Black Friday sales shouldn’t be illegal. But in a culture that properly values and relates material goods and spiritual blessings, and recognizes the created rhythm between work and rest, such sales and their consequences would remain where they belong: the other six days.America’s gerontocracy
One fact that has become increasingly evident in the Great Recession’s wake is the disproportionate influence exerted upon economic policy by those aged 65 years or older. This group is far more economically secure than most other Americans — according to a recent Pew Research Center study, the gap between the average net worth of those 65 and over and those under the age of 35 is increasing.Work, the curse, and common grace
That human beings were created to be creators, to work, is undeniable. The anthropological concept of homo faber, man the tool-maker, attests to this basic aspect of what it means to be human. But ever since the fall into sin work, has been bittersweet