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Prosperity Is More Than Wealth: There Is a Path Forward, and the West's Biblical Foundations Help Explain Why

There is a path forward to what I would call biblical prosperity. It is not easy, it is not formulaic, and it certainly is not quick, but it is real.

When people in the majority of the world look at the West, they often see material abundance: higher incomes, stronger institutions, and more stable systems. What they also see, rightly, is the cost of that prosperity: social fragmentation, loneliness, cultural decay, and moral confusion. The mistake is assuming these outcomes are inseparable. The West did not become prosperous because it abandoned moral structure; it prospered long beforehand.

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