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Poverty Cure: From Aid to Enterprise

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I am really impressed with the vision of Poverty Cure: PovertyCure is an international coalition of organizations and individuals committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty that challenge the status quo and champion the creative potential of the human person. This vision, rooted in their biblical understanding of poverty and the true solutions to it, is […]

Notes on Carl Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism

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I recently took notes over Carl F.H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Written in 1947 (when “fundamentalism” and “evangelicalism” were equivalent terms), Henry’s call was for a theologically informed and socially engaged evangelicalism. Henry was concerned that, through its separatist mentality and tendency to separate social action from the concern of the Christian, modern […]

Keeping an Eye on the Backward Clock: How Getting Things Done Relates to the Biblical Call for Holiness

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Scott Belsky, in Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality: The notion of the backward clock is simple: if you were told the exact year, day, and time that your life would end, would you manage your time and energy any differently? Even if that date were seventy-three years, twelve days, two […]

Some Spiritual Advice

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I’m not sure that the essence of repentance is being able to list of all your sins to the Lord. Obviously, it is crucial to recognize our specific sins, confess, and repent. But it seems to me that we also have to recognize before the Lord our sin of not being able to see all […]

The Greatest Need in Developing Nations

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Peter Drucker: “The greatest need in underdeveloped countries is people who build … an effective organization of skilled and trained people exercising judgment and making responsible decisions.”

Why Your Vote Matters So Immensely

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It’s because voting is an intrinsic good, not merely an instrumental good. In other words, even independent of your vote’s affect on the outcome of the election, voting is a good thing that matters in itself.  This is because when you vote, you are exercising your rights, and doing so for the good of the […]

America Needs Entrepreneurship, Not Just Innovation

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That’s the point of a helpful interview in the Gallup Management journal with Jim Clifton, author of the The Coming Jobs War. Here’s an excerpt: The United States has no shortage of great ideas and innovations. What the country most needs right now are highly motivated entrepreneurs who can turn those ideas into great businesses […]

Truth is Obtainable and Valuable

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Proverbs 23:23: Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. “Buy truth” = you can know truth. It’s obtainable. “Buy truth” = it’s worth getting. That is, it is valuable. “Do not sell it” = states the same thing from another angle: it’s valuable. Hold on to it. It’s worth keeping. […]