The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from ...

A flash caught my eye out the family room window. I counted the blond heads of my children. One, two, three — “They’re all ...

If the doctrine of eternal security is true that is, the belief that a true Christian cannot lose his her salvation the ...

It wasn’t the man himself that hit me first, but the hat, an obscene little crown of polyester tyranny, lopsided and ridiculous, perched on hair so white it looked irradiated, powdered with asbestos ...

Herman and Weisenburger's answer to this comes from Erich Fromm's work Escape from Freedom, which conflates the rise of Nazism with the ideology of Protestantism. See Luc Herman and Steven ...

“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). In the construction industry, there is a running joke among contractors that when the architects and engineers ...

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty. However, ...

In September 2024, Steven J. Lawson, the once prominent pastor at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas, was fired after he admitted to an "inappropriate relationship" with a younger woman. The 73-year-old ...

“Civility is not the whole story in life,” Richard Mouw said. “But we often take incivility much too far.” Online, in face-to-face relationships, and even at church, this statement has proven true ...

The title of Benjamin M. Friedman’s “Religious Influences on Economic Thinking” is dully academic but eye-catching all the same. It is a slim book, some of it a restatement of the argument the author ...

We’ve all heard of them, or at least some of them: Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor. And the most suspect culprit of them all: Prozac. Like a roll call of lieutenants on a starship, they file into our minds ...