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)…
By Greg Forster: part seven of a series. The image of God as king is very familiar in other contexts – especially as the importance of “the kingdom of God” in the teachings of Jesus is being rediscovered. But what we may not always realize is that a king is a worker! As with the image of God as a…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project; produced by The High Calling, contributor Michael Stallard. For much of my life, I left the Holy Spirit at the front door as I headed to work to compete in the marketplace. Two people have helped me realize I was wrong: the doorman at a cancer center and the former chief of the…
By Chris Armstrong, reprinted from Humanism as a Way of Life; part two of a series. Inhabiting Joy in our Work But even if we find biblical reasons to trust this message, the second, practical question arises: How are we to inhabit this joy in our own working lives? How can we face the thorns and thistles of our work in these challenging…
By Jo Trickey, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded…
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