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…
By Hannah Rich, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. As a football fan, it feels like there is an ever-lengthening list of reasons to feel conflicted about the sport. This summer, it’s been the Saudi Pro League, which has made headlines as a growing number of top international male players have signed lucrative deals to play in Saudi…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. By far the most enthusiastic feedback we received at Karam Forum 2022 was from the conversation between Helen Young Hayes of Activate Workforce Solutions and Denise Daniels of Wheaton College. Hayes described her revolutionary experience leaving the heights of Wall Street to start a business in Denver that hires workers on the margins who need…
Reprinted from The Chalmers Center. People are not projects. Please listen to these words and take them to heart. All human beings are made in the image of the living God. This means we are never merely projects defined by our economic statuses, our material possessions, or our vocations, graded on some scale of how well we are doing at life. Rather,…
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