Right now, the first section of Vision Video’s great new Going on Vocation: Exploring Work as it Was Meant to Be video is available to watch for free on Vimeo. What if work can be redeemed? What if God has a calling on your life? Noted scholars are joined by a waitress, a policeman, a stay at home father, and many others to explore how God calls each of us to a life of vocation. Check it out, and then... Read more
Words of wisdom from Bonnie Wurzbacher about how important teamwork is to success. Wurzbacher was at the time of this video Coca-Cola Company Senior Vice President, Global Customer Leadership and is now Chief Resource Development Officer at World Vision International. This is part of our ongoing feature in this space of clips from a wonderful YouTube channel run by The High Calling called “60 Seconds to Significance“. It features approximately one-minute talks about work and calling, including practical tips on faith in... Read more
By Jordan J. Ballor Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant watch So nightly toils the subject of the land, And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, And foreign mart for implements of war; Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week; What might be toward, that this sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: Who is’t... Read more
Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessèd peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed; And free us from... Read more
By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. “All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a grateful heart has a continual feast.” Proverbs 15:15 November is the month of Thanksgiving and the day itself comes around next week. As an entrepreneur and as a human being it is my favorite holiday of the year–by far. It is, of course, a refreshing pause from daily business tsuris, as well as the only... Read more
I appreciate a man who not only is a fan of Dorothy Sayers’s essays on work, but also read all the Lord Peter Wimsey novels with his wife during their first year of marriage. This is Steve Garber, of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, blogging on the institute’s website: As we talked, my friend the businessman-become-farmer asked me if I had ever read Why Work? by Dorothy Sayers. I have, and think it is as a good a statement... Read more
Originally published at Ithilien in 2004. This is the day when Episcopalians and Methodists celebrate a 20th-century Roman Catholic feast by singing a hymn (All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name) written by a particularly obnoxious Baptist (Edward Perronet–ex-Methodist and all-out dissenter who launched vicious attacks on John Wesley). In other words, a truly ecumenical occasion. The feast of Christ the King, celebrated on the last Sunday of the liturgical year, was first proclaimed by Pope Pius XI in 1925.... Read more
By Bill Peel More and more adults are heading back to college to sharpen their skills and broaden their understanding—especially in the rapidly changing realm of business. In fact, according to NBC News, the enrollment rate of adults going back to school is rising faster than typical college-aged students. This growing trend prompted C12 Group, the largest Christian CEO roundtable organization in the U.S., to team up with LeTourneau University to offer MBA programs to its 1800 members. The strategic partnership was recently announced at C12’s national convention in... Read more
By David Spickard: published at the Jobs for Life blog on 11/4/15. On an unseasonably cool day this past summer, I found myself driving a rental car through the backroads of Mendenhall, Mississippi. It had been a long time since I had been in Mississippi. Growing up, I frequently visited Jackson to see my grandparents, but after they died, I had not had found an opportunity to visit again. But on this day, the gentleman in the passenger seat gave... Read more
‘ “Once you come to know the world — truly come to know the world and all its doubt and darkness — can you love it still?” That’s the question the co-founder of the nonprofit Blood:Water addresses in her new memoir. This article is reprinted from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an offering of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. Read more about Nardella in our recent posts from The Asbury Project. When Jena Lee Nardella was a 21-year-old... Read more
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