
Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth

With regard to starting things, the trick here is to act like you know what you’re doing, make the decision to “go for it,” and then God sends capable people to help you implement the vision.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
Jesus is already Lord of those who recognize it, and He is already Lord of those who refuse to recognize it.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
and where should we go? Where the people are. And where people gather today is online.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
If your use of Twitter is limited to informing all your followers that you are rummaging in the fridge for some Dr. Pepper at two a.m., then sure, quit that.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
But for every book like that, given the propensity of Calvinists to worry excessively about the heart of man, I would recommend that you read three like Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You, Postrel’s The Future and Its Enemies, and Herman’s The Idea of Decline in Western History. Why should Calvinists worry? In the collision between the
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And so here is my central thesis, stated yet again: technology in all its forms is a type of wealth. The Bible contains no warnings about technology as such, but is crammed with warnings about the bias of wealth.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
To change the metaphor, to believe that the car is gassed up, running fine, and on the right road does not keep the kids from squabbling sinfully in the back seat.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
Part of being wise is that we do not forget the doctrine of sin.
Douglas Wilson • Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth
The world, this world, is presently going where Jesus is taking it. So we should be wise, and stop worrying.