Just in from Bill Peel: At long last, the 2016 Faith@Work Summit videos are now available on Vimeo. Below you will find a link to the videos, as well as links to resources from Summit Sponsors and Partners, Summit Photos and Breakout Notes. It was my pleasure to lead efforts for the 2016 Summit, and now plans are underway for…
This press release came across our desk a few days ago and we thought it was well worth bringing to your attention. — TGR First Presbyterian Church of Houston (www.fpchouston.org) has unveiled Project Flourish, a creative invitation to the community to help bring fresh ideas to the issues that face a major metropolitan city like Houston. Through Project Flourish, First Presbyterian…
A few weeks ago we reprinted a post from the Oikonomia Network by Ken Barnes about the beginning of his tenure at the Mockler Center at Gordon-Conwell. We caught up with him recently for more details. TGR: How are things going since you wrote that article for ON? KB: Things continue to move along. I’m very happy with the growth of the Ockenga Fellows program and the center itself. Our primary goal…
One of TGR’s bloggers, Jonathan Malesic, has a provocative essay over at Inside Higher Ed, where he diagnoses the recent well-publicized problems at Duke Divinity School as stemming, in part, from what might be called an over-adequate doctrine of vocation: Judging from his emails, Griffiths seems to think of academic work as an exceptionally high calling, a vocation. He is hardly…
Rice just announced this grant in late April: The comprehensive study will focus on U.S. workers and will comprise a broad-based national, random-sample survey of approximately 12,000 people from multiple religious traditions and no religious tradition. Research will explore faith at work as well as religious discrimination. It will include focus groups with both professional and working-class participants and as…
By Melissa Lee Emerson When my pastor mentioned that he had just read and endorsed a manuscript about women and work, I naturally had to ask him to tell me more. I almost stopped listening after he told me that the title was A Woman’s Place, but I stomached the visceral reaction, asked for an extra dose of grace, and…
By Kenneth Barnes There are few things more daunting to an academic then returning to one’s alma mater to give a talk. When that talk is part of an interview for a teaching position however, the emotional stakes are even higher. That was my experience when I visited Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary nearly thirty years after graduation to deliver a lecture…
