Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Restoring people to sustaining work is a key component of poverty alleviation. One of the most effective ways to work toward this is by starting a holistic work readiness ministry. But launching a work readiness ministry is a major undertaking that involves a lot of moving parts. To run your first class, you need to…
By Edward Lee, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler There is something self-evident in learning, unlearning, then relearning and unlearning again as we grow in body, mind, and spirit. It is both innately and intentionally developmental.…
By Larry Peabody, reprinted from The 313. R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, and chairman of the Institute for Marketplace Transformation. He has written widely on everyday life themes and the workplace in particular, including The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, Taking Your Soul to Work (with Alvin Ung), Money Matters (with Clive Lim), Work Matters, The Other Six Days…
By David Williamson. This is the fifth of a series. Much of Dik and Duffey”s book Make Your Job a Calling leads the reader to fulfill the title, starting out within the career discernment process. One of the ways in which this can happen is through “Serving Others,” the title of Chapter 5. Discovering how our job can in fact serve…
By Tim Yearsley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. I’ve hit Inbox Zero. Outlook tells me, “You’re all caught up.” There’s no one waiting for me to reply to them. I walk away, my inbox gleaming like a polished kitchen worktop. And then I feel an irresistible urge to make sure my inbox stays at zero. So I check back.…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Theology will help your students draw more extensively on the theological knowledge tradition to help people wrestle with today’s opportunities and difficulties. At the core of our work in the Oikonomia Network is drawing connections between the knowledge of God and his word stewarded in the church and the challenges of…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Based in central Oklahoma, Branch15 was founded in 2013 to serve women in critical, life-controlling situations. Their mission has always been one of healing and restoration in the lives of their clients. Branch15’s main ministry participants have little to no support systems to address crises, which range from substance addiction to sex trafficking to abusive relationships to…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. In churches that follow the Revised Common Lectionary, the Gospel we read on the last Sunday after the Epiphany – also, the Sunday before Lent – is about Jesus’ transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-9). Jesus leads his disciples Peter, James, and John up Mt. Tabor. On the mountaintop, as Jesus’ closest disciples behold his…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. It is well worth going back eighteen years to revisit this classic book on leadership, purpose, and companies. Nikos Mourkogiannis is a business leadership consultant with a distinguished track record for more than forty years. Purpose represents a kind of distillation of his best insight into leadership and organizational development and success and has been…
By David Williamson. This is the fourth of a series. A worker today is somewhat limited by the realities of the job market. A chapter on “Job Crafting” in Dik and Duffey’s Make Your Job A Calling helps the reader craft any job so it is more of an experience or expression of calling: Job crafting identifies those things that workers…
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