Recently, in the 4th Republican debate, Senator Rubio made a comment in regards to raising the minimum wage in the U.S. Toward the end of his response he made the comment, For the life of me, I don’t know why we have stigmatized vocational education. Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers. I’ve worked in a skilled trade for 14 years and also have a degree from a liberal arts university in religion, a... Read more
By Mike Coyner The terrible events of this past weekend in Paris remind us to pray for the people of Paris and France as they deal with the aftermath of another terror attack in their country. The outpouring of care and sympathy to the victims has been heart-warming, but unfortunately accompanied (as usual on social media) by some outrageous calls for revenge which are disproportional to the context. Sometimes we human beings are so angry at the obvious evil of... Read more
The Harvard Business Review thinks it might be. The truly talented, we are told, flee obligations to work themselves into the ground. And yet they appear to love opportunities to do so, if presented in the guise of solving big problems, learning, and pushing themselves further. Whether we are forced to or choose to work too much, however, a growing body of research suggests that working long hours damages our health, productivity, and families. A recent study suggests that it... Read more
By Mike Coyner Last week during our Learning Forum for active UM bishops, I heard one of our presenters say, “Many of us in the church are functional atheists.” That statement got my attention, and I hope it gets your attention. He further explained: It is easy for us in the church (especially in church leadership) to fall into the trap of believing it is all up to us. That kind of “functional atheism” is not much different from non-believers... Read more
(or, as my British relatives call it, Remembrance Day…) Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common... Read more
This post continues our partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity in Business in the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. Ethix has conducted many inspiring interviews with business leaders, and we’re excited to feature them here from time to time! Read the previous parts of our interview with Tami Heim, who has worked for both Thomas Nelson Publishers and Borders. The business of books in a digital era Ambushed by Amazon Not very... Read more
Read about Day 1 of The Asbury Project here. Maybe it was just me, since I started the day with a funeral, but there was a more serious tone on the second day of the adventure in social entreprenuership that is The Asbury Project. While I was celebrating the life of a beloved professor, Jena Lee Nardella of Blood:Water was delivering the chapel message at Asbury University, and I’m sure she rocked the house with her passionate energy. But I... Read more
This post continues our partnership with Ethix, a publication of the Center for Integrity in Business in the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. Ethix has conducted many inspiring interviews with business leaders, and we’re excited to feature them here from time to time! Read the previous parts of our interview with Tami Heim, who has worked for both Thomas Nelson Publishers and Borders. The business of books in a digital era Ambushed by Amazon Retail Convergence... Read more
So it’s even more true what I wrote about the Asbury Project last year: conferences of Christian entrepreneurs are full of energy. Especially, it’s even more true because there are about twice as many people here as there were last year. I drank my hot cocoa this morning in a room full of eager-looking young people, many Asbury University students who had been required to come by their economics and business professors. Although even the seminary students looked young (I... Read more
…a great gathering of folks at Asbury Seminary and Asbury University in Wilmore, KY around issues of social entrepreneurship and the integration of faith and economics. Catch all the action in real time on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatheosFthWork (and follow us on Twitter while you’re at it.) You can read the posts I wrote about last year’s conference here: The Asbury Project, Day 1 The Asbury Project, Day 2 I’ll be checking in with new posts today and tomorrow. (I promise zippier... Read more
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