Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project. God created people to live in a rhythm of working and resting. After creating the world, God looked around and saw that “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). God did not just cease from his labor; he stopped and enjoyed what he had made. The idea behind Sabbath is to experience joy in…
By Chris Armstrong, reprinted from Humanism as a Way of Life; part one of a series. The idea of taking joy in our ordinary, daily work may seem alien to many of us. Work is simply hard, isn’t it? Cursed from the beginning? An unpleasant necessity to keep body and soul together? So, the questions I’m going to reflect on…
By Jo Trickey, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on New Testament will help your students see the revelation of God in Christ in a fresh way, as a power breaking into the whole world by the Spirit even today. Economic wisdom means above all the wisdom we have come to know in Christ, the full and final embodiment of…
By Mawoussé Tchegnon, reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Training savings group members in business skills contributes to economic growth and job creation in communities. Mawoussé Tchegnon Mathias Noubouke is a successful businessman in Togo. He owns two thriving school and office supply stores. Mathias’ business journey started when he joined a Restore savings group facilitated by his church. As well as learning…
I have personally been part of a “faith at work” movement since 1966 as a junior at the University of California at Berkeley when I began a lifelong quest to understand the relationship of God and my faith to the history I was studying and to the public school teaching I envisioned doing. I have sketched my personal journey in…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. “We are all one in mission; we are all one in call….” Rusty Edwards’ lyrics remind us that, at bottom, all vocations are essentially the same – to be Christ’s ambassadors in, to, and for the world. For many, discerning how to enact that call in their own life can become a challenging,…
Read part I of this interview here. David Gill: Let me come back to the challenge of being a woman in executive leadership. It seems that many of our faith at work organizations and ministries define themselves as “for men only” even in our time when women are massively present in business schools and the marketplace. Katherine Leary Alsdorf: Prior…
By Greg Forster: part five of a series. This wasn’t intentional, but in this series on imagining God as a worker one of the things that’s emerged for me is how the different kinds of workers used in the Bible to depict God are differentiated by the levels of life in the creatures they work on. We’ve seen so far:…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project. A quick online search (Sept 2016) of some recent surveys that explore work and family issues demonstrate these results, which form some of the background to tonight’s discussion. Group Discussion: Do you see work as competing with life or part of life? What Does the Bible Say about Work-Life Balance? A capable wife who…
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