Family reformation and modern technology are combining to enable Christian families to develop their family skills and work together to produce goods and services that provide income and make the family strong. An outgrowth of the family reformation movement is the desire to work together as a family – to be productive and create value through home businesses. Christian Home Industry started as a desire to help Christian home-based businesses develop broader awareness of their products, and has developed into a comprehensive online marketplace that promotes both our vendors and the concept of the industrious family that drives them.
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Healthy Work Environments
Decentralizing to a home business or small business is beneficial, then, on many fronts. Not only are small businesses more conducive for family involvement and self-motivation, but they provide a healthier atmosphere as well. Lower stress, lower pollution, and a more peaceful and natural setting are all things which support good health.
Technology and Our Duty
Technology, what a subject. It has been praised as something akin to a god, and it has been hated as something of the Devil. A proper use of technology is not a new problem, nor is it one that will go away soon. We should continue to consider this issue as we try to build and rebuild a godly and productive economy.
Of Workmanship and Craftsmanship
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. ~attributed both to St. Francis of Assisi and to Louis Nizer Today I’d like to share an excerpt from a book by Wendell Berry. …
Daniel Boone’s Family Economy
Almost everybody knows the name of Daniel Boone, but few know much about his actual life, much less what we can learn from his family economy.
