By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. For me, the crown jewel contained in the Episcopal Church’s 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the Baptismal Covenant. Born in 1949, a “cradle Episcopalian” as they used to call us, I was formed by the majestic cadences of the venerable 1928 BCP. I was 30 by the time the “new” prayer…
By David Gill, adapted from his 2016 plenary address to the Faith at Work Summit. Part one of two. Fifty years ago I had my first clear faith at work awakening. I was a junior at the University of California Berkeley studying to become a high school history teacher. I began to wonder what to do with the fact that…
By Greg Forster: part eight of a series. The title of this post pulled me up short when I wrote it. I was just following the format for all the titles in this series: Just Imagine, God a Farmer! Just Imagine: God a Doctor! But this one’s different. “Just Imagine: God a Father!” It’s amazing. Just imagine it! God .…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project, produced by The High Calling, contributor Dena Dyer. I love my kids to death, but some day they may be the death of me. This summer is the first time in more than two years that I’ve been home all day with both our sons—Jordan, 14, and Jackson, 8. Though I am extremely…
By Chris Armstrong, reprinted from Humanism as a Way of Life; part three of a series. For spiritual practices toward vocational joy, see Denise Daniels and Shannon Vandewarker’s Working in the Presence of God: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Work. Categories of practices in this book include a “liturgy of commute,” “surrendering the calendar,” “lamenting work,” and “prayer of examen for work.” In my…
By Tim Yearsley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Culture will help your students understand the social structures that shape them as human beings, for good and for ill, and how we can act to strengthen what is right and challenge what is wrong in those structures. The gospel is not spoken into a vacuum, but into the…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Cities are full of motion. Crowded streets, shifting populations, and people searching for stability and opportunity. For ministries walking with those facing poverty, urban settings bring unique challenges alongside meaningful opportunities for restoration. Two of our partners—Untold, which walks with individuals affected by HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Chalmers Model Training Centers in Togo…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Since Trinity Sunday, I’ve been reflecting on a simple but powerful idea: For followers of Jesus, baptism is our superpower. In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus gives the Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,…
By David Gill, originally published by Workplace 313. In her recent book, Work, Pray, Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2022), UC Berkeley sociologist Carolyn Chen showed how work has become, in effect, a replacement religion for many tech workers. Church attendance is down and what takes its place is work as religion, the source of meaning and purpose, and the idol to whom sacrifices of time (and more)…
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