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…
Read part I of this interview here and part II here. David Gill: Tell us about the “Gotham Fellows”. Katherine Leary Alsdorf: The Gotham Fellowship grew out of our pilots of classes and discussion groups as a way to provide discipleship and public theology training at the same time giving an opportunity for the gospel to deeply change how people…
By Greg Forster: part six of a series. In my last post I noted that, without realizing it, the biblical images I had chosen for imagining God as a worker could be organized in a progressive scale based on what the various kinds of workers had stewardship over: Starting in this post, we ascend from the body of the intelligent creatures…
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…
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