March 18, 2015

March 18, 2015 By

This post comes to us from Duke Divinity School’s magazine Faith & Leadership, an offering of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. By L. Gregory Jones We love to hate the institutions we need. We grumble about them, malign them as lifeless bureaucracies, and create comic strips and TV shows about their dysfunction. Even if we recognize institutions are necessary — necessary evils — we would rather ignore them than engage them or serve them. We despise institutional leaders as self-serving... Read more

March 14, 2015

March 14, 2015 By

This article originally appeared at the Oikonomia Network. Thanks, folks! By Uche Anizor There are different degrees of glory in heaven. Some saints will there be exalted higher in glory than others. This is a doctrine very fully revealed in the Scriptures. – Jonathan Edwards, “Degrees of Glory” We see disparities in income, opportunities, education, skills – you name it – all around us. Public discussion and debate about these disparities often center on the issue of justice or equity.... Read more

March 8, 2015

March 8, 2015 By

This review was originally posted at our sister blog The Working Catholic. Thanks to Bill Droel for letting us share it with you! It is hard to get a handle on globalization because it includes nearly instant communication, instant transfers of money, plus trade policies, including tariffs and NAFTA. It is also the IMF, currency rates, immigration policies, large-scale assembly and distribution of goods, speculative trading of complex financial instruments, outsourcing and an international drug market, plus sweatshops, changes in... Read more

March 4, 2015

March 4, 2015 By

This post originally came from our sister blog TOW Project, but they don’t mind us tooting their horn.   On June 12, 2014, pastors, professors, and parishioners welcomed a one-of-a-kind Bible resource, the Theology of Work Bible Commentary, which focuses on a single topic–people’s work. The commentary is available online and vols. 4-5 are also available in print.  (Vols. 1-3 will be coming soon!) Users may be surprised to discover how much the Bible says about work. “From Genesis to Revelation, the... Read more

February 28, 2015

February 28, 2015 By

In modern North America, the question “What am I supposed to do with my life and why?” is both focal and vexed. Our pragmatic society focuses on work and career so much that our first question on meeting a new friend is “What do you do?” Given this national obsession, it would be reasonable (but wrong) to expect North Americans to drink deeply from centuries of reflections about this thing called “work.” But we know this is not the case.... Read more

February 23, 2015

February 23, 2015 By

Reprinted from The Well. Thanks, folks! Embarrassing as it is for a 19th-century historian to admit, I didn’t know 19th-century writer Hannah More (1745-1833) — at least not well — until I met her in the pages of Marc Baer’s Mere Believers, which I reviewed for The Well a few months ago. (In my defense, I thought of running around waving my hands in the air and shouting “But I’m an Americanist!” But at this stage of my life, since... Read more

February 19, 2015

February 19, 2015 By

By Andrew Arndt Andrew Arndt, the regional network coordinator of the Kern Pastors Network in the Rocky Mountains, hosted a series of breakfast gatherings around Tim Keller’s recent book, “Every Good Endeavor.”  Participants discussed how churches – including those under their own leadership– might better integrate and address issues of faith, work, and economics. Below, Arndt reflects on the book, the experience, and thoughts he still wrestles with.  One of the great joys of serving The Kern Family Foundation as... Read more

February 15, 2015

February 15, 2015 By

“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.” – Ecclesiastes 5:10 The widespread chatter about Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is both good news and bad news. The good news is that people are intensely interested in the problem of inequality. The bad news is that they are interested in the wrong kind of inequality. The inequality people are talking about is unequal possession of money.... Read more

February 12, 2015

February 12, 2015 By

It’s well worth checking out these “oldie but goodie” posts on essential resources for understanding the interconnection of faith, work, vocation, and economics: “Faith and Work: What Needs to Be Read and What Needs to Be Written” by Greg Forster writing at The Gospel Coalition.  Greg gives short descriptions of a number of important books, and concludes with some suggestions about what kind of books we all still need to be writing on these topics! “Books on Calling and Vocation,... Read more

February 9, 2015

February 9, 2015 By

(This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement.) By Kasey Summerer In this installment of our series featuring resources on Faith, Work and Economics, we recommend Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Stark helps the reader understand and even rethink the way history unfolded concerning innovations of the last millennium within science, industry, politics, and economics. As Stark works his way through... Read more

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