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…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on History will help your students see that they are part of a much bigger story – the story of the mighty works of God done among us, his people, across the centuries since the coming of the Word and Spirit. From a 4th century witness against slavery to the social…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Maria walked to the front of God’s Compassion Church of Manila and testified, “My child would have died had it not been for the help of the members of the savings group. I was able to get a loan for the medicine, and they also prayed for me, and visited my sick child.” Maria sat…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission Wayne Schwab’s recent post reminds us that the system that we’re working inside of is perfectly designed to give us what we’re getting. So if we want to see a different result, we need to redesign the system. The bad news is that wholesale redesign is difficult, if not impossible. The good news is…
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