Our friends at Made To Flourish sent us this link to an interview of Tom Nelson talking about what’s up recently with Made to Flourish, Tom’s new curriculum Gospel Shaped Work, and his book Work Matters.
Category: Leader Profiles
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…
Impacting the City: 5280 Fellows’ Professional Projects
We received an email about the 5280 Fellowship recently from Jeff Haanen, a blogger here and the director of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work. The Fellowship is a leadership program in Denver and Boulder for full-time professionals who are committed to applying the gospel to their work. Here’s an excerpt from what he had to say about this exciting…
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:…
Catching Up With Ken Barnes
A few weeks ago we reprinted a post from the Oikonomia Network by Ken Barnes about the beginning of his tenure at the Mockler Center at Gordon-Conwell. We caught up with him recently for more details. TGR: How are things going since you wrote that article for ON? KB: Things continue to move along. I’m very happy with the growth of the Ockenga Fellows program and the center itself. Our primary goal…
Full-Life Discipleship at Gordon-Conwell
By Kenneth Barnes There are few things more daunting to an academic then returning to one’s alma mater to give a talk. When that talk is part of an interview for a teaching position however, the emotional stakes are even higher. That was my experience when I visited Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary nearly thirty years after graduation to deliver a lecture…
FWE Integration in a Small Congregation: Part II
Reprinted from Made to Flourish. For the first part of Amy Sherman’s interview with Mary Lou Erlacher, click here. ALS: Has there been any push back by any congregants regarding the foundational ideas in the FWE movement? MLE: Not really push-back, no. We have a really strong elder team, consisting of men who think well and carefully. One elder, who is…
Faith, work, and biblical commentary: speaking with Will Messenger and David Kim, part II
The Green Room recently sat down with David Kim, editor of the Faith and Work Bible recently released from Zondervan, and Will Messenger, executive editor of the Theology of Work Project, to talk about the Bible and work and the similarities and differences between their projects. The first post in this series can be found here. TGR: What are some…
Faith, work, and biblical commentary: speaking with David Kim and Will Messenger
The Green Room recently sat down with David Kim, editor of the Faith and Work Bible recently released from Zondervan, and Will Messenger, executive editor of the Theology of Work Project, to talk about the Bible and work and the similarities and differences between their projects. TGR: What makes a faith and work Bible, or Bible commentary, different than any…
Obsessed With Work or Just Bored? Bringing the Conversation About Work Across Acoma Street
It’s well past 1 p.m. From my desk I look across Acoma Street and see a woman in her early 20s wearing baggy sweat pants, a cigarette hanging out her mouth, tossing an empty Mountain Dew bottle in a dumpster that’s been parked in her driveway for months. She squints at the sun, as if it’s an unwelcome guest disturbing her slumber. Next…
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