The Power of Expression: A Goofy Looking Dog
In the book Anansi Boys, Anansi, the African god of storytelling, is sitting on his front porch in Florida (he’s retired) when he notices a prize-winning dog strutting back and forth on the lawn across the street. It’s...
We Should All Be Bus Drivers
I decided this morning that the bus drivers are my favorite working citizens in the District. They good-naturedly wait for me when I, all but, sprint across the crosswalk to board the bus on time. They don't seem to hold...
Should Our Goal Be to Create Jobs at All Costs?
Dr. Anne Bradley, Vice President of Economic Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, helps us to better understand economics 101 when it comes to the relationship between creating wealth and creating jobs. Job creation is a hot political...
Redemptive Work
According to US News 80% of people will break their new year resolutions come February. How are you doing on yours? Last year I confessed my love/hate feelings about setting new year's resolutions. The tension I have with this ritual caused...
Economic Liberty Benefits the Least the Most
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he specializes in foreign policy and civil liberties. In the article below, he promotes economic liberty (a.k.a. capitalism) as a means by which the least of these can benefit. On...
Why is a $15 toy selling for $5,000?
When The Collaborative posts curated material on our blog I usually provide a brief introductory paragraph to help set the context. Today you are getting a bit of a hybrid because these are matters that are worthy of deeper thought.There...
Creativity Is Your Call. Restoration Is Your Purpose.
So often creativity is relegated to something pertaining to the arts. However, creativity is one of God's gifts he has freely given to all. It is a gift that is often misunderstood and under utilized. In the article below Art...
EDITORIAL: WE BELIEVE IN INSTITUTIONS
James K.A. Smith has an amazing way of tapping into our inherent design, calling it to the forefront of our conversation, and helping us to understand how we are further cultivating the virtue of it or working to destroy it. In...
Work Songs
“Remember,” he said, with a twinkle in his eye: “we’re trying to reach hearts and minds—not minds and hearts.” The year was 2012, and I was just starting work on a collegiate outreach initiative to build a network of Christian...
Little Man, Big Idea
Sometimes the songs we sang in children’s church forever consigned Bible men as caricatures. Like this one:Zacchaeus was a wee little man.A wee little man was he.He climbed up in a sycamore treeThe better his Lord to see. So we forever...
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