Just because there’s a market for a particular line of work doesn’t mean we should do it for a career. The question Baxter makes us ask is strange for modern ears: is this job honorable? Read more
Just because there’s a market for a particular line of work doesn’t mean we should do it for a career. The question Baxter makes us ask is strange for modern ears: is this job honorable? Read more
A great talk on this was posted some time ago on the website of Dallas Theological Seminary, where Darrell Bock of DTS sat down to chat with Andy Crouch of Christianity Today to talk about what culture means. Can you ever leave culture behind? How can you transform it without letting it transform you? How can you make good culture? Listen to the podcast on their website or below (and, if you are a visual rather than an aural learner, you... Read more
"Take, for example, the world of the Bible, wherein most husbands and wives co-labored to scrap together a subsistence living. We don't see Boaz coming home from the fields, propping his feet on the coffee table and asking Ruth to fix him dinner and put the kiddies to bed. In fact, their romance begins in a field, where Ruth works hard gleaning behind harvesters to provide for herself and her mother-in-law." Read more
This channel’s been home recently to some musings on the “Do What You Love” school of vocation advice: Jeff Haanen and J. B. Wood have reminded us that God may sometimes want us in places we don’t love, that failure to be in a place where we can do where we love does not mean we have failed in our faithfulness, and that a choice for stability over dream-chasing is not an unChristian choice. I thought of all that when... Read more
From our friends at Regent College Marketplace Institute: Thankful for ReFrame launch late October As Thanksgiving approaches for all our Canadian friends this weekend, we’re delighted to announce that ReFrame will be launching this month. After many months in the making, the launch of ReFrame is less than 3 weeks away! You will be the first to know the minute we hit the go-live button, but in the meantime, we wanted to share some more of what you can expect... Read more
We just ran into this column by Gael O’Brien on Entrepreneur‘s website. While the advice does not come from an explicit faith perspective, it is often good advice about tricky cases: worth checking out. (And if you subscribe to the magazine, the August 2014 issue has a great Q and A by O’Brien on religion in the workplace. We’re working to snag it when it goes online. In the meantime, here’s a musing on the same topic from another Entrepreneur author, focused... Read more
Duke University’s Faith and Leadership blog always has some good thoughts for leaders in both churches and workplaces. A recent story there by Jason Byassee told the story of how one church and community came together to help both flourish by building a community trail. Here’s the beginning of the story from Jason: I don’t know what else I know about leadership, but I know this: I believe in the generative power of creative friendship. Here’s what I mean. When I first... Read more
That question is at the center of a new book reviewed by Drew Cleveland recently on Kern Pastors Network and called Entrepreneurship and Human Flourishing. As Drew says: Written with Christian college students and entrepreneurs in mind, Horst and Greer marry biblical wisdom with insightful data. Full of great quotes, biblical foundations, dozens of real world stories, and above all, a big heart and a joyful tone – this succinct resource is a gem. Here’s a taste: “Entrepreneurship occurs when people... Read more
Yet another entry in the hymns about work you can sing in worship that we’ve been collecting here on the channel (previous entries can be found here and here.) The hymn is “Work for the night is coming;” the soloist, surprisingly (and beautifully!), is former editor of Christianity Today David Neff, who prepared this video to help his church choir rehearse (but is OK with the fact that it wandered onto the Internet. We checked.) More on the history... Read more
We’re not the only ones on Patheos thinking about this question. A few days ago I ran into a post on the same issue at Patheos’ Religion Q and A, called “How should Christianity mix with commerce?” The questioner asks: Businesses like Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A overtly follow Christian principles and thus promote Christianity. Is it profitable for them to have this ‘brand,’ or do you think the CEOs have some deeper evangelical goal? The Ridgewood Religion Guy, who runs... Read more
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