By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. John O’Donohue was an Irishman – a poet, a philosopher, and a former Roman Catholic priest. He died in his sleep just days after his 52nd birthday in 2008. His book Beauty: The Invisible Embrace carries the subtitle Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope. He explores our intimate human relationship with beauty, calling…
Reprinted from the De Pree Center. It is almost 60 years since Betty Friedan first started encouraging women to make choices about their lives. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique is widely celebrated as sparking the second wave of American feminism. In that book she described a problem faced by many women at the time: The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Larry Peabody is an important contributor to the workplace discipleship/faith at work movement. His own long career includes working for state government agencies for eleven years, seventeen years running his own business, eight years as bi-vocational pastor of a church plant, and thirteen years as a full-time senior pastor. He has seen workplace…
By David Williamson. Mail carriers (we used to say “mailmen”) are not considered a very high status occupation, especially if you are a walking carrier and subject to barking – even biting – dogs, mail boxes that are difficult to access, and the occasional complaining or angry recipient. Yet I have been surprised and impressed at the educational level of…
By Rachel Smith, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Hotly tipped to win a BAFTA this week is the psychological drama, The Lost Daughter. It tells the story of Leda, a middle-aged divorcee on a solo holiday to Greece. When a local girl goes missing, Leda becomes intrigued with the lost child and her mother. Their relationship reminds Leda…
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 Darren Lim, reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Isaiah 52:7 This week I was reminded through conversations with several people at work that loneliness…
Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey, via CityGate. This is the first in a series. The Big Quit… it has dominated the media over the last number of months. It first became noticeable in April, May, and June of 2021 when 11.5 million people quit their jobs in total over those three months. The latest bureau of labor statistics show 4.3 million…
By Pam Tinsley, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Nathalie is a young business owner, entrepreneur, and mother of a toddler, expecting her second child. She was taught to sew by nuns in a Kenyan orphanage and now designs and makes beautiful clothes that combine African colors with French and American styles. During Nathalie’s early childhood, war raged in the Democratic…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Psalm 1391 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your…
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