By David Williamson. Looking at the annual appeal for a charity providing farm animals to poor families, from Africa to the Far East and in the U.S. – and, this year, Ukraine – I started thinking about the high Calling of a veterinarian’s assistant. I thought of two important and biblically grounded characteristics: love and the exercise of dominion. A…
By Sophie Sanders, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Shape tracking. Sequential memory. Reactive avoidance. Most of us don’t even know what these words mean, let alone use them in our daily lives. But John Archer does both. He loves his job as a trainee air traffic controller and uses these incredibly specialised skills to direct and divert…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on History will help your students see that they are part of a much bigger story – the story of the mighty works of God done among us, his people, across the centuries since the coming of the Word and Spirit. From a 4th century witness against slavery to the social witness…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Ministry focused on addressing poverty is fundamentally about promoting change. It’s about helping people and communities move to a better situation than their present one. Effective poverty alleviation requires us to know where we are trying to go and how we can get there. In other words, we need a “story of change” – or as it…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. “Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’” (John 20:21). This verse, from the Gospel reading for the Second Sunday of Easter, has been my earworm this past week. Jesus appears to his disciples after his resurrection as they huddle together…
Reprinted from Eternity. Christopher Petschack is 21 months into a two-years Masters course through Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. The course is focused on helping students to practice faith–work integration as they learn applied leadership and theology. Christopher is a young leader at a Christian school in Sydney. Here are some excerpts from his monthly reflections submitted throughout the course.…
By David Gill, reprinted from Workplace 313. In her recent book, Work, Pray, Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2022), UC Berkeley sociologist Carolyn Chen showed how work has become, in effect, a replacement religion for many tech workers. Church attendance is down and what takes its place is work as religion, the source of meaning and purpose, and the idol to whom sacrifices of time (and…
By David Williamson. While on my usual neighborhood walk, I noticed a cable company employee working below the ground to establish an electrical connection that would establish an internet connection to several homes in the area. Spontaneously, I recalled the old song “Wichita Lineman,” and started singing – well, humming, actually – the words of that Glenn Campbelll classic. I…
By Nell Goddard, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Don’t forget: Drink water. Get sunlight. You’re basically a house plant with more complicated emotions. So goes the meme currently circulating on social media. It’s been around a while now, but its prevalence has increased in the past few weeks as many people have moved to home working, and…
Reprinted from the Oikonomia Network. Our collection of EWP Talks on New Testament will help your students see the revelation of God in Christ in a fresh way, as a power breaking into the whole world by the Spirit even today. Economic wisdom means above all the wisdom we have come to know in Christ, the full and final embodiment of God’s…
