By David Williamson. This is the first of a series. Interesting connection today: I was reading the beginning verses of Ephesians 4 and the word “called” stood out. Perhaps this is because I am reading Make Your Job a Calling by Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy. It got me looking back on my career as a pastor, my struggles with…
By Charles Hippsley, reprinted from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Romans 12:14 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a…
By Wilhelmine “Willow” Bellevue, author. Part one of two. See part two here. In the Bible, Paul says to be all things to all people (I Corinthians 9:22). Believers must “style flex” their leadership style in the marketplace to successfully attain their goals. Even some leadership styles that are often condemned outright by theologians of leadership can in fact be…
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. Part four of a series. Adapted from A Field Guide to Becoming Whole, 119-124. In this series, our most recent post focused on addressing individual brokenness – the factors within a person, including personal choices and beliefs, that can contribute to material poverty. But as we’ve been saying throughout the series, there are both internal and external causes of relational…
By Demi Prentiss, reprinted from Living God’s Mission. Generosity. Thankfulness. Faithfulness. Forgiveness. Each is an expression of the heart of God. When we choose to embody these words, we re-member God. Not simply recalling who God is and how God has touched us. We also re-present God to the people and places around us. We offer a spark of the…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Part one of a series. Over the next seven devotions, I want to deal with some false stories about work we might hear about, or even unconsciously absorb; and the better story for work that we read in the Bible or is commended through the Gospel. Then God said, “Let us make mankind…
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…
By David Gill, reprinted from The 313. Carolyn Chen is a sociologist (PhD, UC Berkeley) and Associate Professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Getting Saved in America (2008) and co-editor of Sustaining Faith Traditions (2012). Work, Pray, Code is the product of five years of research in California’s Silicon Valley. Chen visited and studied fifteen tech companies…
By David Williamson. We are very eager to exclaim “TGIF.” Some years ago, I came across a book by Bill Diehl, an executive in the steel industry: Thank God It’s Monday. The book itself is a good read, and it encouraged me to remember the story of a Pittsburgh business executive with a situation on Monday morning that needed God’s…
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