Conor Friedersdorf has an interesting discussion with moral implications. We reap the benefits of generations before us (who were much poorer) who chose to invest rather than consume their wealth. It’s an issue that’s relevent today as we neglect investment — indeed borrow from the future — for consumption today. And there are moral issues… [Read more…]
November 13, 2009
By Rob Moll Christian missionaries have always brought institutions from home and planted them in foreign lands. Schools, hospitals and social services are staples of missionary activity. But recently those who spread the faith overseas have realized that it’s not enough to educate and provide health care. In the midst of a world-wide recession, people… [Read more…]
August 12, 2009
Whenever Jan Stravers came home from the mission field, she brought crafts made by the Philipino women she worked with to sell to the churches she visited. In fact, the crafts were from family businesses that the Christian Reformed Church missionary and her husband had helped to start, and her supporting churches were among their… [Read more…]
January 8, 2010
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