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…
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…
Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Has your church or organization experienced an increase in people asking for financial assistance? As costs have been on the rise this year, often the people hit hardest are those with limited financial resources to begin with. So what should you do when people come to your church or ministry to ask for assistance with…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. For those of us who choose to be partners in baptismal living, we aim to live our lives following Jesus, walking the road he described as The Way. One frame for that style of living is to understand the life we live as abiding in sacrament. I’m not talking about The Sacrament:…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part three of a series. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground…The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and…
By David Williamson. Reading “What Does Christmas Have to Do with Work?”, one of Mark Roberts’ devotionals from the De Pree Center, prompted me to think about those who work especially hard at Christmas. When most of the world cuts back and makes room for the celebration of the holiday! Holiday comes from “holy day,” and some are called by…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Dear friends, My new book was just released and Wipf & Stock Publishers is generously offering a 50% discount on all of their nine Gill titles – if ordered at their website this month using the code DWG1946. This amazing sale will end December 31. Please browse the collection below. And feel free to e-mail me if you have…
By David Williamson. This is the second of a series. O God, the creator and preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou would be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the holy church universal, that a it may…
