Faith isn’t a crutch.
It’s a cornerstone.
It’s not soft, sentimental, or vague. It’s not just for preachers, priests, or people trying to escape reality.
Faith is positive certainty expressed in action.
That’s it. That’s the core.
When you believe something is true enough to move, to build, to sacrifice for—you’re living by faith.
Whether it’s launching a business, raising a family, standing your ground, or seeking truth beyond what’s immediately visible—faith is what fuels the forward motion.
Faith Isn’t Optional—It’s Universal
Every person lives by faith.
The only difference is what you place that faith in.
Some put it in the God of Scripture or other religious texts—ancient, eternal, unshakable.
Others in human reason, the market, science, or political ideology.
Some in themselves, their ancestors, or a cause bigger than their own life.
Some find some sort of mixture of the common threads that lie within all of the above.
Even doubt requires faith. You have to believe that your skepticism is better grounded than someone else’s conviction.
So let’s be clear: faith is not blind.
It’s not irrational. It’s not wishful thinking.
It’s certainty that leads to action.
And it’s essential to a life of liberty, meaning, and personal responsibility.
Why Faith Matters to the Free Market Life
At Of The Free Market, we talk a lot about the intersection of personal conviction, discipline, and creative freedom. But none of that is possible without faith:
Faith that what you build today can bear fruit tomorrow.
Faith that truth matters—even if it’s unpopular.
Faith that your life means something—that it’s not just random neurons firing in an empty cosmos.
Markets are made of people.
And people are driven by belief.
Without a foundation of faith, the free market becomes just a game of profit with no purpose.
With it? It becomes a place where value, virtue, and vision meet—and where people live with intention, not just reaction.
This Series: A Journey Through Belief That Builds
We’re not here to preach a single religion, though we’ll show deep respect for the traditions that shaped civilization. Religious faith, as well as secular ideologies passed through centuries of lived experience, deserve serious engagement—not dismissal. These offer moral frameworks, communal identity, and deep wells of wisdom for those willing to drink.
But even for those still exploring—or wrestling—we’ll dig into how belief operates under the hood in all of us.
Here’s where we’re going:
This series, Faith, Doubt, and Everything In Between, begins by asking why the question of God still matters in a modern world shaped by belief, skepticism, and inquiry.
From there, we’ll explore the steadfast convictions of the faithful, the ethical clarity of reasoned doubt, and the timeless philosophical debates that refuse to yield simple answers. We’ll wander through traditions that honor one God or many gods, perspectives that see pleasure as a sacred path, and the growing movement to bridge faith and doubt into a personal, living worldview.
In the end, we’ll arrive at a place where uncertainty is not a weakness, but a shared human experience, a source of wonder—an open invitation to live fully within life’s greatest mystery.
This series isn’t just spiritual—it’s practical.
If you don’t know what you believe, someone else will decide it for you.
In business.
In politics.
In how you live and die.
Faith matters. Not because it’s convenient. But because it’s the engine that drives everything else.
Let’s get into it.
