By Claire Greenwood, reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Stay in your lane. I heard this saying recently and wanted to unpack it a bit for us this morning. How often do you feel the need to “do more” than what we have been tasked to do? Or, we may feel the need to make comments (or if we…
Reprinted from The Chalmers Center. We’re here to help you foster real change. Each Chalmers training opportunity is designed to equip you – and like minded believers – with practical next steps to better serve your community. This month you can sign up for: Faith & Finances // Start a financial education class for low-income adults with our Faith & Finances Facilitator Training. Work Life // Equip your church or nonprofit…
Reprinted from CityGate. “The Big Quit” is underway and has been through most of 2021. Early data shows no sign of it slowing down in 2022. In fact, it seems to be accelerating. The most recent data from November of 2021 shows more than 4.5 million people quit – a new record. One of the refrains I hear over and over from…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. In early October, our local Islamic Center was burned in an arsonist’s hate attack. Between the fire and water damage, our Muslim brothers and sisters now face a rebuild and remodel of their mosque. In the meantime, they have been forced to find a new place to gather for worship. Without a…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Michaela O’Donnell is executive director of Fuller Seminary’s DePree Center for Leadership. The subtitle of Make Work Matter is “Your Guide to Meaningful Work in a Changing World.” The world of work is changing, workers feel overwhelmed, anxious, and lonely – but our education continues to prepare us for a work world that is passing away.…
By David Williamson. For some time I have had an interest in how Christians discern their career choices. There are numerous assessment profiles, discernment tools and books on the subject. There is also, of course, a very wide and broad – wider and broader every year, it seems – range of possible career directions. My observation is that most of…
By Josh Hinton, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! If you can read those lines without hearing Gonzo the Great’s voice in your head, you’re more literary than I. Muppet or not, you’ve got to hand it to…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. The vision of the Economic Wisdom Project is summarized in twelve “elements” that provide starting points for thoughtful, biblically informed understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges. For a handy guide to the twelve elements, download this one-page summary, taken from our EWP vision paper “A Christian Vision for Flourishing Communities”: Below is an excerpt from the paper “Twelve Elements of Economic…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. For years I commuted to Seattle, often by bus. I found the bus drivers to be courteous and helpful – some friendly, and others, business-like. And, like anyone who faces the public daily, they encounter gracious passengers and rude, even unruly, passengers while trying to treat them respectfully. Linda Wilson-Allen takes her…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. One of the most influential Bible interpreters of our time, Walter Brueggemann (b. 1933) is the author of over one hundred books and numerous scholarly articles. He served on the faculties of Eden Theological Seminary (1961-1986) and Columbia Theological Seminary (1986-2003) where he is McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament. His magnum opus, Theology of the Old Testament (1997), is a look at…
