The Green Room

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…

Reprinted from the Chalmers Center. As the Chalmers Center staff gathers with our churches and families to celebrate Easter this week, we join with Christians around the world, declaring “He is risen!” Jesus’ death and resurrection is what secures our reconciliation with God, ourselves, others, and all creation. The one who made all things is remaking us, as Paul tells…

By Brandon Beck, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. My four-year-old friend and I, along with his mother who is the Director of Children and Family Ministries here, went to the local Christian bookstore yesterday to look for craft supplies for the upcoming Palm Sunday children’s formation lesson. The mother and I were chatting as we walked from the parking lot…