I have personally been part of a “faith at work” movement since 1966 as a junior at the University of California at Berkeley when I began a lifelong quest to understand the relationship of God and my faith to the history I was studying and to the public school teaching I envisioned doing. I have sketched my personal journey in…
By now it is almost a truism that the faith and work movement struggles with reaching blue collar workers. A number of very smart people have tried to do something about that. More than any I have seen so far, W. David Buschart and Ryan Tafilowski have succeeded with their new book Worth Doing: Fallenness, Finitude, and Work in the…
By John Hawthorne at Substack. Reprinted with permission. Subscribe to John’s newsletter here. Back in 1978, Howard Jarvis promoted a California initiative known as Proposition 13, a measure to cap property taxes. While there were arguments that this was needed to protect retirees living on a fixed income 1, it also had a strong anti-government sentiment. Three years later, Ronald…
This post is reprinted with permission from Burnout Culture. Please visit and subscribe!A conversation with one of my favorite thinkers: cultural historian & exhaustion coach Anna SchaffnerWhen I was doing research for The End of Burnout, I knew I needed to read Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner to understand better burnout’s prehistory. The book turned out to be so much more than…
Schmiesing, Kevin. Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. 248 pp. $105.00. The story this book tells will be unfamiliar to many readers. The role of business in the development of American history is a contested one, and robber barons and Wall Street tycoons often feature as villains. This…
By J. Mark Bowers, reprinted from the Chalmers Center. Part one of two. What would you do if you received a windfall of money today? Imagine $20,000 fell into your lap. How would you use that amount of cash, no strings attached? Go for it. Dream! Some of us might finance a new car for reliable, stylish transportation. The more…
By Sarah Heynemann, reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. It’s a pretty difficult time to be giving bad news to patients in the hospital at present. A young patient presents with a seeming innocuous musculoskeletal complaint and leaves hospital the recipient of an advanced incurable cancer. How do you relay this news with compassion and empathy at any…
By Lisa Slayton, reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. There is a marvelously breathtaking moment when we watch the trapeze artist flying through the air as she releases one swing and looks suspended, seemingly weightless, high above the ground before she reaches to grab onto the next swing or the hands of her partner. While it fascinates us to watch, we…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. It was wonderful to be invited into the Reserve Bank of Australia, an august institution which helps to regulate our economy. Its values are integrity, respect, excellence, intelligent inquiry and promoting the public interest.I had just finished talking about how we should remove the sacred-secular divide, live out our faith at…
By Lisa Slayton; part four of a series. Reprinted from The Wholeness Journey. Last fall my husband and I took a wonderful trip to central Italy. After a few days in Bologna, we headed to Florence and Tuscany. On our way, we detoured slightly to stop at the Ferrari and Lamborghini factories. These stops included the opportunity for us to drive a…
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