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Finding Our Calling -- The Meaning of Life
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SUMMARY
Freedom -- whether spiritual, intellectual,
political, or economical -- is indivisible. People
who enjoy private economic freedom have
greater liberty to search for intellectual truth
and personal spiritual growth in all its variety.
As a private enterprise educator, I have
spent my life encouraging people to join me in
preserving and spreading the word about the
human side of free enterprise, so that those of
us who have been blessed so abundantly can
commit ourselves to leaving our country and
our way of life a little better for the next
generation than it was when we found it.
I want to go on record that the successful
pursuit of a professional career in business, in
education, or in any other honorable vocation is
inherently consistent with a righteous life.
Furthermore, I believe the close adherence to
New Testament principles enhances -- not
hinders -- the probability of professional
success.
In the course of the last 26 years of
teaching economics to young people, and in
order to be sure we're keeping them on the
"straight and narrow,"
I make it a point to
include the following question at some point in
one of their multiple choice examinations:
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