The Good Life is a Sent Life

Why the Good Life Is a Sent Life — The Flourishing Journal The Flourishing Journal Missional Flourishing Why the Good Life Is a Sent Life We have learned to picture flourishing as something we gather and hold. The oldest blessing in Scripture, and the newest findings in wellbeing science, both say otherwise. By Victor Counted • The Flourishing Journal Missional theology has always confessed something strange about God: that God is a missionary God. We see this claim masterfully discussed in the seminal work of missiologist, David Bosch, in his book Transforming Mission. In other words, God the Father sends the Son. The Son sends the Spirit. The Spirit sends…

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It’s Summer Again. We Should Stop Calling Them Mission Trips.

It's Summer Again: The Quiet Parochialism of the American Mission Trip — The Flourishing Journal Opinion · Faith and Society The American Mission Trip Has a Parochialism Problem My students asked me a question in class this week, and I hedged. Here is the answer I should have given. Victor Counted The Flourishing Journal May 2026 We were working through the experimental psychology literature on parochial altruism — the well-replicated finding that humans, and especially people of faith, cooperate generously with their in-group while showing markedly less concern, and sometimes outright hostility, toward outsiders. The data are uncomfortable. They suggest that much of what we call moral behavior is calibrated…

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