Things you need to do soon: Read Katelyn Beaty’s excellent article, “The Faith-Work Gap for Professional Women,” at Christianity Today. She references a new Barna survey which notes “that evangelicals—while generally supportive of working women—were the group least likely to support them compared with all Americans,” and she outlines several possible reasons why. Sign up for a free digital copy of “Change…
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Work as Holy War: The War Within
By Greg Forster; part two of a series. We have seen that the cross is not only for saving, the cross is for destroying – destroying hell and all its works. John is pretty straightforward: “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” How does that apply to our daily work? Not to…
Vocation of the Half-Baked Catholic
By Mary Pezzulo; reprinted from Steel Magnificat. My teacher was a Dominican, and I wanted to be a Dominican just like her. I wanted to teach second graders, wear a frumpy pantsuit with a little Dominican shield pin, and live in a convent. I was sure I had a vocation. By the time I got to college, it was clear that…
Thinking and Rethinking Work: Spotlight on Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
By Darrell Yoder; reprinted from the Oikonomia Network newsletter At Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, we are nearing completion of two multi-year projects related to the work of the Oikonomia Network. These two projects have focused on helping students and local pastors develop a biblical theology of work and to pursue faithful approaches to economics and poverty. Local Pastors and Churches…
Why Are You Asking a Theologian What Lawyers Should Do? An Interview With Alistair Mackenzie
Alistair Mackenzie is a Teaching Fellow at Laidlaw College – Christchurch, New Zealand and has also worked part-time with the Theology of Work Project. He is the author of Where’s God on Monday?, SoulPurpose: Making a Difference in Life and Work and Just Decisions: Christians Ethics Go to Work, and the founding director of Faith at Work (NZ). As part…
A Proposal For a Theology of Management: Part 1
Managers are like small gods—they have the power to create or destroy worlds. —– I propose that the Christian faith and work community needs a theology of management to go with its theology of work. One of my dear friends has been nearly oppressed at work for several years. One day he was visibly frustrated by some workplace circumstance, and…
What Christian Vocation Looks Like for the Elderly
The faith and work movement can tend to celebrate the entrepreneurial, which by extension often means celebrating the young (because, after all, they’re usually the ones with the energy to start new things.) The Christian Century ran an excellent article a little while ago about what vocation looks like in older adults: If vocation is about God’s call to persons (and…
Vocation Should Not Be a Middle-Class Luxury: An Interview With Gordon Preece
Gordon Preece is an Anglican minister, the director of Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity & Society, and the founding director of RASP, the research Centre for Religion and Social Policy of the University of Divinity, all in Victoria, Australia. We talked to him as part of an ongoing series of interviews with leaders of faith and work ministries. TGR:…
Book Review: Not Talking Union
There is a certain irony when reviewing a book on the subject of unions and Mennonites. I would like to introduce you to Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour. This book is written by Janis Thiessen, an associate professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. Thiessen’s current research interests include the 20th century…
Book Review: Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
Story and metaphor are a powerful means for education on a variety of subjects, including faith & work. StoryCorps has published a book titled Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work whose purpose is to tell the story of individuals at work. Callings is written by Dave Isay. Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting…
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