Our friends at Made To Flourish sent us this link to an interview of Tom Nelson talking about what’s up recently with Made to Flourish, Tom’s new curriculum Gospel Shaped Work, and his book Work Matters.
Fat people earn less and have a harder time finding work. What does the faith at work movement have to say to them?
We ran into this somewhat disturbing story at the website of the BBC recently: Even when they’re able to do the job competently, obese people routinely face discrimination in the workplace. While discrimination against employees because of their sex, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or disabilities is illegal in a growing number of countries, including the UK, many businesses…
Why Are You Asking a Theologian What Lawyers Should Do? An Interview With Alistair Mackenzie
Alistair Mackenzie is a Teaching Fellow at Laidlaw College – Christchurch, New Zealand and has also worked part-time with the Theology of Work Project. He is the author of Where’s God on Monday?, SoulPurpose: Making a Difference in Life and Work and Just Decisions: Christians Ethics Go to Work, and the founding director of Faith at Work (NZ). As part…
The Curse of Hard Work, Reconsidered
Reprinted from MISSION:WORK at Patheos. Check out one response to this question here at TGR by Benjamin Norquist. So, if you’ve been reading this blog for long you know I have a lot of jobs. One is as an editor for The High Calling at The Theology of Work Project. (THC, for a long time, was solely a production of…
Impacting the City: 5280 Fellows’ Professional Projects
We received an email about the 5280 Fellowship recently from Jeff Haanen, a blogger here and the director of the Denver Institute for Faith and Work. The Fellowship is a leadership program in Denver and Boulder for full-time professionals who are committed to applying the gospel to their work. Here’s an excerpt from what he had to say about this exciting…
Book Review: The Greening Of the Church
I was recently introduced to a book that, while not new, has important wisdom for leaders in the faith and work movement. The Greening Of the Church (1971) was written by Findley Bartow Edge (1916-2002). Dr. Edge held the Basil Manly, Jr. Chair of Religious Education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he taught for more than 40 years. Edge authored…
What Henry David Thoreau Can Contribute to a Theology of Work
Jonathan Malesic, one of our bloggers, recently sent out a note alerting his mailing list to a paper he’s written for the Journal of Religious Ethics on resources from Thoreau for dealing with the “suckiness” of work (TGR’s term, not Malesic’s). The paper is behind a paywall, but if you belong to an academic institution you may have access to the…
Book Review: Every Job a Parable
We thank the Center for Faith and Work at LeTourneau for allowing us to reprint this review of John Van Sloten’s new book. The review is addressed to an audience of workplace Christians; we invite you to think about how you could use the book to address issues of work and daily life with workplace Christians in your own church…
A Proposal For a Theology of Management: Part 1
Managers are like small gods—they have the power to create or destroy worlds. —– I propose that the Christian faith and work community needs a theology of management to go with its theology of work. One of my dear friends has been nearly oppressed at work for several years. One day he was visibly frustrated by some workplace circumstance, and…
What Christian Vocation Looks Like for the Elderly
The faith and work movement can tend to celebrate the entrepreneurial, which by extension often means celebrating the young (because, after all, they’re usually the ones with the energy to start new things.) The Christian Century ran an excellent article a little while ago about what vocation looks like in older adults: If vocation is about God’s call to persons (and…
The Green Room 