By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. My extended, blended family is, probably like many other similar families, repeatedly in the throes of learning how to be with one another. Lately, we have a mantra to fall back on when things get tough: “We are allowed to make mistakes.” That’s not designed to avoid accountability, or foster a laissez faire attitude…
By Greg Forster, reprinted from The Gospel Coalition. Things are looking dark in American culture. We lament the darkness, but at least it helps make the light of the gospel more visible. However people respond to it, our job is to shine that light. And the place where we have the most opportunity to shine it these days is not…
By David Gill, reprinted from the Bay Area Center for Faith, Work & Tech. When things around us—in our country, our workplace, our neighborhood, our school—seem to be sinking or spinning in the wrong direction, it is tempting to want to grab the steering wheel and impose our insight and leadership on the situation. We might wish (or even attempt)…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project; lead contributors David Kim & Leah Archibald. Human beings need a rhythm of work and rest in order to live up to their God-given potential. Just as God gives people important work to do, God also asks people to rest periodically from their labor. Work gives each individual the opportunity to partner with…
By Dorothy Moorley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus,…
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. A little over two years ago, Chalmers started an Ambassador program. Through this two-month-long intensive training, ministry practitioners from all over North America have been certified to represent Chalmers in their region or ministry field. This has allowed Chalmers to send out Ambassadors to provide presentations of a biblical framework for poverty alleviation and help churches and…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. This past week’s Gospel reading – “deny [your]selves and take up [your] cross and follow me” – inspired a convicting reflection on the scripture (Mark 8:27-38) by Brian Malison, a graduate of Luther Seminary, in their daily posting “God Pause”: “Christianity has a PR problem. It is impossible to put a positive spin…
By Greg Forster, reprinted from the Gospel Coalition. Recently, stern and sometimes angry commenters here at TGC called me a left-wing stooge of socialism for an article I wrote about economic justice and the gospel. Which is funny, since the last time I wrote an article for TGC on economic justice and the gospel, stern and sometimes angry commenters called me a right-wing stooge of…
Reprinted from the Theology of Work Project; lead contributors Bill Peel, Leah Archibald & Randy Kilgore. The suggestion that every Christian is called to share the gospel is unsettling to most Christians, since most of us don’t feel gifted as evangelists. Although it is thrilling to be part of someone’s journey to faith, broaching a spiritual conversation with colleagues at…
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