Sheryl Sandberg is making headlines because she is challenging long-held beliefs about women and leadership. Her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. (Below, see Sandberg’s TED talk, in which she outlines what she ended up writing in the book.) Rebekah Lyons has written a great piece at Q Ideas in which she gives an appreciative critique of the book. Lyons writes, “Sandberg hooked me with her statement, ‘We [women] hold... Read more
Colossians 1:19-20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in his Son, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Read more
With this motion graphic slideshow, Rob Murray draws from pop culture, experts in the field, and great books about faith and work with the hope to bring younger generations into these topics. Rob is the founder of Firehouse Talent Agency and is pursuing the Master of Arts in Social and Civic Entrepreneurship at the Bakke Graduate University. This was a project he created for a course called Theology of Work. With this, he hopes to “open up the conversations around God, work,... Read more
“Heaven is important, but it’s not the end of the world!” I laughed out loud when I heard N.T. Wright say this in one of his audio lectures. It’s a perfect play on words. Not only is this a great figure of speech, but it is also the biblical teaching. Sure, heaven is great. But it is not the telos, the culmination of our existence as Christians. Modern evangelicalism has adopted the paradigm that runs rampant in our culture, inherited from the Greek... Read more
In this video from BIOLA, Dallas Willard talks about how all the various aspects of business are facets of how God intends us to love one another and for his glory to shine. “I think God works far beyond the church. And thank God he is out ahead of us all the time, and that’s because he loves the world. And business is a primary arrangement, on God’s part, for people to love one another and serve one another.” Read more
Cavin Seerveld, in his magnificent book, Rainbows for the Fallen World, makes the case that a Christian understanding of aesthetics must not succumb to the heresy of Plato’s theory of “Forms.” where the non-material abstract idea of “beauty” is the higher, idealistic spiritual reality while the material world is somehow inferior. When we talk about art, we are talking about real, physical cultural artifacts – created by and for human beings in the real world, and they are aesthetically important not... Read more
It is high-time for us to re-embrace beauty as much as truth and goodness (see Monday’s article on this). Beauty is found in the nuance of a painting found in an art museum, the unexpected transition in a musical composition, in a tearful or exhilarating moment in a film. But not only there: beauty is also experienced in a smiles on a bunch of kids’ faces, a gentle breeze against your face, a moment of lying still in the grass.... Read more
by Ed Cyzewski, originally published at TheHighCalling.org “People are bored and aimless, just waiting to be distracted, and by capturing their attention with games, you can effectively market products to them…” An enthusiastic marketing professional wrote that in an article I’d been reading as part of my research for a client. The thought crossed my mind, “Do I really want to be a part of this?” Thus began a moral crisis at work. After running into these types of situations over... Read more
The true, the good, and the beautiful: through the ages, these ideals have been at the heart of what it means to be human. We seek truth, we need to do that which is good, and we need to experience beauty. Christians have forever embraced these as various aspects of the glory of God. Jesus, the logos of God, is “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14) and is the personification of truth (John 14:6), and those who follow Jesus will know this truth and be set free (John... Read more
Watch LIVE from New York as Tim Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf discuss the unique insights of Christianity for discovering the meaning of work. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 7:30 pm EDT At The Gospel Coalition Read more
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