Money is just a convenient fiction. Read more
Money is just a convenient fiction. Read more
What God as an artist can create has no limitations, and remains to be seen. Read more
By Mike Coyner I saw someone posted on Facebook a church sign which said, “Come back this Sunday, He is still risen.” Aside from the obvious invitation to come to worship more than just on Easter Sunday, that sign reminds us that Easter is a season and not just one day. Liturgically the season of Easter begins on Easter Sunday and continues for the “great 50 days” through Pentecost Sunday. Spiritually, Easter is an on-going reality – that is, if... Read more
A while ago I read a great book called Also a Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore. I recommend it. MISSION:WORK has offered some similar reflections in the past. Last week I was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church (on April Fool’s Day, although it was not a joke!) I thought about Miller-McLemore’s book when I got to look at the pictures on my mother-in-law’s iPhone. The person holding the iPhone used the feature... Read more
In October 2013, I got a phone call from my friend Chris Armstrong about a new venture he was starting. It was the venture which became this Patheos Faith and Work Channel. Certain pieces of his startup puzzle had shifted, and he needed someone else on the team. Could I be on a phone call at 4:00 that afternoon? I could, and I did. (Up until that point I had never even heard of the faith and work movement. I... Read more
“We’re fighting this multi-billion dollar evil with a peashooter,” Stephen told Don as they wandered around the exhibition hall at an anti-human trafficking convention. At every booth they were encountering stories of abuse and human suffering. There were also stories of rescue and restoration. However, the sheer scale of global slavery seemed to dwarf the efforts of those at the front-lines fighting against it. Most organisations working with trafficked communities can only provide jobs for 5, 10, 20 or... Read more
By Mike Coyner During this Holy Week we need to keep things in the right order and the right perspective. This week can get lost in the midst of spring vacations and Final Four tournaments, but for Christians this is the most important week of the year. And yet, even for Christians, it is easy to get things out of order and out of perspective. I am remembering the words of my preaching professor at Duke Divinity School, Carlyle Marney,... Read more
By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. I found this line in a recent John Grisham bestseller. “Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.” The distance between the criminal and the successful entrepreneur is not so very far. We both intuitively operate out-of-the-box with an instinct for not accepting the status quo. We both are not inclined to accept the tyranny of the given. We both intuitively color outside... Read more
By Adam Joyce This year, the Oikonomia Network’s annual faculty retreat featured provocative and stimulating talks from three leaders of the faith and work movement. Access their talks and slides here: David Miller, “God Bless Us, Every One: The Past, Present and Future of the Faith and Work Movement” (audio) Amy Sherman, “In and For Community: Helpful Models in Theological Schools” (audio and slides) Amy Sherman, “In and For Community: Helpful Models in Local Churches” (audio and slides) Paul Williams,... Read more
So says the New York Times in a recent article by Cristobal Young. Do you agree? AMERICANS work some of the longest hours in the Western world, and many struggle to achieve a healthy balance between work and life. As a result, there is an understandable tendency to assume that the problem we face is one of quantity: We simply do not have enough free time. “If I could just get a few more hours off work each week,” you... Read more
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