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…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part seven of a series. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 This is the final of seven devotions dealing with some false stories about work which we might hear about, or even unconsciously absorb; as well…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Edward D. Zinbarg (MBA, Wharton; PhD, New York University) spent thirty-five years at Prudential Insurance as chief economist, chief investment officer and executive vice-president. During those years he also taught finance at City University of New York for fifteen years and co-authored the widely-used textbook Investment Analysis and Portfolio Analysis (1986). In his retirement, he…
By David Williamson. This is the sixth and final post of a series. Calling suggests a spiritual foundation. Workers who experience their work as a calling are happier, and perform at a higher level. Dik and Duffy’s book Make Your Job a Calling provides helpful guidance for that process and a very useful addition the process of finding a job that…
By Sam Brown, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. Luke 22:56–57 The mayhem of this situation doesn’t always leap off the page. Jesus, having been…
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