Creative creatures creating

I wrote yesterday about a bad kind of capitalism, so it seems right that today I mention a good kind, via the blog of a friend of mine, Chris Horst. He is very thoughtful when it comes to development and microfinance, especially from a Christian perspective, so he’s well worth following. He’s written a great new post on the humanizing power of creativity and innovation, which Cubans are increasingly being able to exercise after decades of having those impulses suppressed. Chris would tell you that creativity is God-given, and that God has planted some of it in each of us, and that what we do with it matters a lot. I think he’s exactly right.

When we view economic opportunity as a chance to be creative, and when we view each person on earth as an image-bearer of our Creator, good things can happen. And, for the very same reason, it seems that we’d be increasingly maladjusted to business in its more dehumanizing and destructive forms.

While I'm at it, I'd be amiss not to mention that HOPE International was featured last night on WGAL, the local NBC affiliate, focusing on its great work in Haiti. Watch the clip here.

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