In our particular cultural moment, have you noticed a longing for values or traits that may seem absent in public life? Warren Bennis famously…
Tag: Theology of Work
Doctors & Dying: Caring for Caretakers
The loss of a typical progression of dying, the loss of chaplain bedside presence, these are also fatalities of this disease, impacting doctors daily.
Edgar Bazan ~ The Rest of God
I believe that God wants us to enjoy our everyday lives. John 10:10 says that Jesus came to us so we may have and enjoy…
Andy Stoddard ~ Receiving the Value of Sabbaticals
I’m at just about the halfway point of renewal leave (i.e. Sabbatical). I took my first church job in 1997, and ever since then,…
Tammie Grimm ~ The Work of Our Hands: Celtic Christianity & the Way of Wesley
The Celtic tradition reflects this integration of mind, body and soul. Whether it be the kneading of bread, the weaving of cloth, the shearing of sheep or the plowing of fields, there is a mind and body synergy that allows the worker to engage the craft in such a way that their work becomes a prayer.
Celtic Clues to Feeding Body and Soul
The plea and blessing she sought from God wasn’t just hers alone. Guests and visitors who arrived to a home in which the daily chores were being tended greeted their hosts with the Gaelic blessing Bail o Dhia which translates to, ‘God’s blessing on the work!’ The declaration of such a blessing expressed the implicit knowledge that the monotonous backbreaking work was not simply the laborer’s alone but a joint effort blessed by God upon which all of society depended.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ The Will to Prepare the Way
Any Christian who wants to appear pious knows that he or she should want God’s will to be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Few people want to scrub a toilet, wipe down its exterior, and clean the floor surrounding it. But you cannot separate faith from works.
In other words, the will to pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven is not nearly as important as the will to ask God how we might help bring about God’s will to be done on earth today in our home and town and nation.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ The Greatest Spiritual Need…
Are you feeling discouraged?
Depressed?
Defeated?
Frustrated?
Is everything a struggle?
Tom Fuerst ~ Pastors, Moral Failings, and the Thing Nobody Wants to Talk About
The apostles don’t see themselves as CEOs or slaves to the church. They see themselves as fulfilling a specific duty for the church: the ministry of the word of God and prayer. Everything else was dropped from their plate. And not only did the church not look down on them or call them lazy for a desire to emphasize these two tasks alone, but this suggestion “pleased the whole community.”
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Are American Clergy Suffering a Crisis of Faith?
It’s a mistake to criticize questioning by and in itself. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith will last about as long as Farrah Fawcett hair, Hammer pants, beanie babies, MySpace, “Gangnam Style” and every other grass that withers and flower that doth fade away.