2015-10-07T06:41:54-05:00

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 6:41 am   By

The Patheos Faith and Work Channel recently contacted leaders of some prominent community development and entrepreneurial organizations to talk about  successes and difficulties in their attempts to transform communities through the growth of new businesses and attention to the dignity of work. Over the next few days, just in time for Thanksgiving, MISSION:WORK will be featuring their stories. Here is the first. By Rudy Carrasco of Partners Worldwide How did Partners Worldwide  come about? What is its mission? Partners Worldwide... Read more

2014-11-20T10:32:15-05:00

Last updated on: November 20, 2014 at 10:32 am   By

A Monday roundup of great articles that are worth your time to read, ponder, share, or even argue with.  This week’s list: A Protestant Perspective on Ethics in the Executive Suite: With his financial career as a backdrop, Bill Powers discusses the role of faith and ethics in the executive suite from a Protestant perspective, particularly in the financial services sector. Vocational Liturgies: James K.A. Smith on developing rituals that nurture our time in the workplace. Do You Have the... Read more

2014-11-18T13:00:38-05:00

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm   By

This is the seventh in a series of ten posts featuring artwork from the Christians in the Visual Arts exhibit, “Work: Curse or Calling?” Many thanks to Margot Rogers and CIVA for allowing us to feature these beautiful, intriguing, and challenging pieces here at MISSION:WORK.  Please check out CIVA’s website for more information on scheduling the exhibit for your own church, school, or workplace, and to see the other images from the exhibit (there are 28 in all.)  Today’s featured... Read more

2014-11-18T12:39:09-05:00

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 12:39 pm   By

By Drew Cleveland. Originally posted at the Kern Pastors Network Resources blog. This pastors network is “dedicated to growing the numbers and influence of pastors and churches that are actively integrating faith, work, and economics for ministry that produces human flourishing“. The “theology of work movement” has produced a wide range of excellent resources to lay out the biblical and theological foundations and outgrowths in churches and daily life. These include biblical, academic, pastoral, tradition specific (Pentecostal, Reformed, Wesleyan, Lutheran,... Read more

2014-11-19T11:58:41-05:00

Last updated on: November 19, 2014 at 11:58 am   By

This is the sixth in a series of ten posts featuring artwork from the Christians in the Visual Arts exhibit, “Work: Curse or Calling?” Many thanks to Margot Rogers and CIVA for allowing us to feature these beautiful, intriguing, and challenging pieces here at MISSION:WORK.  Please check out CIVA’s website for more information on scheduling the exhibit for your own church, school, or workplace, and to see the other images from the exhibit (there are 28 in all.)  Today’s featured... Read more

2014-11-18T13:00:00-05:00

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm   By

This is the fifth in a series of ten posts featuring artwork from the Christians in the Visual Arts exhibit, “Work: Curse or Calling?” Many thanks to Margot Rogers and CIVA for allowing us to feature these beautiful, intriguing, and challenging pieces here at MISSION:WORK.  Please check out CIVA’s website for more information on scheduling the exhibit for your own church, school, or workplace, and to see the other images from the exhibit (there are 28 in all.)  Today’s featured... Read more

2014-11-18T11:20:35-05:00

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 11:20 am   By

Nathan Roberts on….the Boston Summit and the Mind-Body Problem. Do we really need faith-and-work integration? Or do we just need….life in all its complexity? Check it out over at The High Calling.   Read more

2014-11-13T14:57:17-05:00

Last updated on: November 13, 2014 at 2:57 pm   By

So many great articles are crossing my desk that your humble scribe doesn’t have time to write a whole post about each and every one of them. But you ought to know about them…so I’m starting a Monday roundup of great articles that are worth your time to read, ponder, share, or even argue with.  This week’s list: Domestic Neglect: Can You Hear the Silent Screams at Home?  Christianity Today says that our culture of overwork is creating a crisis.... Read more

2014-11-13T15:06:37-05:00

Last updated on: November 13, 2014 at 3:06 pm   By

By Kyle Bushre, originally posted at Kern Pastors Network Resources blog Here’s a little cultural word math that appears to be axiomatic in today’s young, Christian marketplace of ideas: Non-profit = God-honoring, Profit = Self-honoring. The logic runs something like this: God has called us to do great things for him, and the way to tell whether you are truly doing something for God, and not for yourself, is to make sure you’re not receiving anything in return. Glory goes... Read more

2014-11-13T15:10:55-05:00

Last updated on: November 13, 2014 at 3:10 pm   By

By Jake Belder; originally posted on his blog. Dorothy Sayers, in her essay, ‘Why Work?’, is highly critical of economies that are based solely on production and consumption, and in particular, how they negatively affect our conception of work. Writing from the viewpoint of wartime Britain, she observes that reckless consumption has so thoroughly devalued work that workers are now solely perceived as cogs in the production machine. Sayers believes that it is to society’s detriment to continue to operate... Read more

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