Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Chalmers is taking an exciting step in our partnership with the Free Methodist Church (FMC) in Latin America as we equip them to implement and scale Innovate: Local. This training prepares local churches and para-church ministries in the Majority World to use their own talents and resources to develop holistic poverty-alleviation ministries that meet the unique…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission; photo courtesy of Pam Tinsley. I love to garden, and – aside from tomatoes – I prefer growing flowers and vegetables from seeds rather than by purchasing starts. Each morning, I faithfully check to see if a sign of new life has emerged from the freshly tilled and enriched soil. By summer’s…
By David Gill, adapted from his 2016 plenary address to the Faith at Work Summit. Part two of two; see part one here. Faith@Work 101 needs now — and will always need — to be actively promoted and taught in our churches and all other Christian contexts. These five basics need to be constantly and creatively promoted. But we also need…
By David Williamson. This is the first of a series. Interesting connection today: I was reading the beginning verses of Ephesians 4 and the word “called” stood out. Perhaps this is because I am reading Make Your Job a Calling by Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy. It got me looking back on my career as a pastor, my struggles with whether I had…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project, produced by The High Calling, contributor Sam Guthrie. When I first stepped foot onto Gordon College’s campus, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of who I was and what I was going to do after college. But after four years of challenging professors, culture-shocking journeys, and the influence of mentors and…
By Chris Armstrong, reprinted from Humanism as a Way of Life. I’m on a free-wifi-enable Delta flight, headed from Minneapolis to Boston. 20,000 feet in the sky, my thoughts turn to the widespread and influential, but fraught, “faith and work movement.” I say the movement is “fraught” because it has been largely lay-led for decades, and thus characteristically thin on the biblical, theological, philosophical,…
By Tim Yearsley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Spiritual Formation will give your students a bigger vision of what it means to be formed in Christlikeness. Against the spiritual bankruptcy of rote “box checking,” haranguing people to go through the motions of religious works and devotional exercises, these videos offer a vast new way to think about how…
By Shay Bassett, reprinted from the Chalmers Center. In a world where “getting a job” is both vital to survival and difficult to achieve, job readiness programs often feel transactional. This is exactly where Chalmers’ Work Life program stands apart. It weaves faith, character, and community into every lesson–offering more than just skills but also hope. Every day, individuals walk through the doors…
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…
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