Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Defining poverty is not simply an academic exercise. The ways we define poverty – either implicitly or explicitly – play a major role in determining the solutions we use in our attempts to alleviate that poverty. When a sick person goes to the doctor, the doctor could make two crucial mistakes: (1) Treating symptoms instead…
Reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Dennis Raverty, writing for The Living Church, recently took a closer look at a widely-distributed 19th century print of a painting by George Caleb Bingham, titled The Jolly Flatboatmen. When the engraving was distributed to American Art-Union subscribers in 1846, some objected that the realistic subject matter was “uncouth.” Raverty believes that Bingham was intentionally mirroring a far more…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Courtney Moore is the El Paso-based founder and president of the non-profit Women & Work and co-host of the podcast “Women & Work.” She is a graduate of the University of Mobile and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In this book she has gathered essays from ten of her women friends reflecting on various aspects of biblical…
By David Williamson. It has been a few years now, but have a lasting and profound image of Stephen Clapp, then dean of the Juilliard School, performing a solo in the middle of a communion service I was leading. Simply standing from where he had been seated, near the back of the worshiping group gathered for participation in the Lord’s…
By Ennette Lainchbury, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. You’ve probably been told that your grades don’t define you. That whatever happens, God is in control. When you’re waiting for exam results, however, it can be hard to feel like that. In the last fortnight, around 60% of people experienced anxiety that interfered with their daily life – as results…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Pastoral Leadership will equip your students for the unique task of stewarding both the gospel and their congregations. Pastors are chief “oikonomists” of the Christian theological knowledge tradition (I Corinthians 4:1) and are also head disciple-ists of their communities. That task is as challenging today as it ever has been, but…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Over the past year, The Chalmers Center has made significant changes and improvements to our Work Life program. We’re excited to share these updates with you and pray that they bless your ministry. If you are not already part of the Work Life community, we hope that we might partner with you in the future! What is Work Life? Work…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God‘s Mission. We are all missionaries. By our own cultural heritage, by our own geographic setting, by our training, education, life experience, and unique access to certain people, we are to bear the beams of God’s light, and life, and love, knowing that God is with us and that God will provide. Br. Curtis…
By Marda Quon Stothers, reprinted from The 313. Richard Lui, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with an MBA from the University of Michigan, is an author and journalist with MSNBC/NBC News. Enough About Me opens with a self-disclosing story about an episode in his interesting international career journey, flying from Singapore to interview for an anchor job at CNN…
By David Williamson. After dinner at my daughter’s house on Father’s Day, my daughter handed me a cup with the familiar inscription: “Do What You Love, Love what you Do.” It pushed me to remember my dad’s work history as a metallurgist. Metallurgy is the forming of steel tools from raw steel sheets. My dad was a foundry superintendent for…
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