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 Duffy’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…
By Josh Hinton, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. As AI technology continues to advance, its ability to replicate natural human language has become increasingly impressive. This development raises important spiritual questions about our perception of humanity, value, creativity and purpose. From a Christian perspective, it’s important to consider how these advancements in technology align with biblical teaching.…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on Ethics will help your students explore the way we strive to live as followers of Jesus, and what we hope for – and will work for – when it comes to economic systems and practices. Perhaps the toughest part, these talks will help convey why we want what we do in those areas.…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. The key to any effective poverty alleviation is love. God made the world out of love, and redeems us through his love expressed in Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. He made us to enjoy loving relationships with him, with ourselves, with others, and with the rest of his creation. Because of this, our work to…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Dave, David and Al met eight years ago on a music team for an Episcopal Cursillo/Come and See retreat weekend. David was a vocalist and played rhythm guitar; Dave sang and played guitar, banjo and mandolin; and Al played double bass. In addition to contemporary church music, they also shared a love of folk…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens wrote a short novel that describes the lives of the winners and losers in the fictional “Coketown,” a generic Northern English mill-town. Hard Times was the tenth (and shortest) novel by the author of Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and other works. First published in 1854, Hard Times describes and critically satirizes the…
By David Williamson. This is the third of a series. In their book Make Your Job A Calling, Dik and Duffy address distortions in our approach to work, when we either make it merely a means or treat it as establishing personal value. If our job has some social status, we are ready, and even quick, to tell someone – almost…
By Ross Hendry, chief executive of CARE; reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. To strike or not to strike? That is not a simple question! Every day brings news of further strikes. Think transport, NHS, Royal Mail, schools and the civil service. Everyone’s impacted. And opinions run hot. It’s tempting to support who you feel most sympathy for. Yet if a…
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