The proliferation of books on the topic of the integration of faith, work, and economics over the past decade has multiplied available resources to the point of confusion at point. Whereas a decade or so ago, there were a handful of recent, high quality books on the subject that were often targeted to academic audiences, there are now dozens of…
Tag: stewardship

Just Imagine: God a Potter!
By Greg Forster: part five of a series. This wasn’t intentional, but in this series on imagining God as a worker one of the things that’s emerged for me is how the different kinds of workers used in the Bible to depict God are differentiated by the levels of life in the creatures they work on. We’ve seen so far:…

Review: ‘NIV Faith and Work Bible’ uncovers God’s story for stewardship
The Green Room welcomes Joseph Sunde with his review of the NIV Faith and Work Bible, reprinted from the Acton PowerBlog. Joseph Sunde is a writer and project coordinator for the Acton Institute, editor of the For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles blog and content manager of the blog Oikonomia at Patheos.com. He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and…

The Same Thing We Do Every Night…
By Greg Forster; part six of a series. This is a post about ruling the world. This series on suffering began with the two horns of the dilemma facing the faith and work movement: we want to help people suffer but without helping people suffer. Then it went through the three major theological areas where there is, in general, a…