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Will Winning the Lottery Ruin Your Work Ethic?

polymath | December 30, 2013 | Society

$648 million. That was the jackpot for the latest Mega Millions game—a multi-state lottery with hundreds of thousands of entrants. Two winning tickets were sold last week, one to a woman in Georgia, and another one, yet unclaimed, which was sold at a San Jose, CA...

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Three Ways Free Enterprise Helps Us Appreciate the Miracle of Christmas

Jacqueline Isaacs | December 24, 2013 | Faith

Christmas is a season of miracles. Ultimately, it is the celebration of the miracle of Christ’s birth and God’s provision for our salvation. This is obviously true apart from any economic system, but I believe free enterprise makes it easier for us, imperfect and...

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

My Employment Diary

Chris Horst | December 5, 2013 | Poverty

This article was originally posted at Smorgasblurb. I still don’t know why I answered my phone. I didn’t recognize the number, but took the risk and put my clunky Blackberry to my ear. Matthew introduced himself. He had recently sold his law firm and was smitten with...

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Chris Horst is the Director of Development for HOPE International.

Servile Work and the Kingdom of God

polymath | December 5, 2013 | Faith

Financial Times writer Simon Kuper had a keen insight recently on the emotional effect of the economic disruption that has taken place over the last decade: That’s been the middle-class experience for ever: people have a professional identity. We are what we do. We...

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The Importance of a Rightly Ordered Life: A Review of Jordan Ballor’s “Get Your Hands Dirty”

Jacqueline Isaacs | November 22, 2013 | Faith

In his recent release, “Get Your Hands Dirty,” Jordan Ballor of the Acton Institute lays out a clear case for why Christians ought to have rightly ordered lives and what that might look like. While the book took shape around a collection of essays, this message was as...

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.