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2015-10-30T12:02:06-05:00

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What do faith and work have to do with #Halloween ?

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 12:02 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

That question was answered for me profoundly by an interview that appeared on our channel last year over at The High Calling called “Serving God in the business of death.” Funeral director Caleb Wilde, who blogs at Confessions of a Funeral Director, had some penetrating things to say to Christine Scheller about his occupation, and all of our mortality: Christine A. Scheller: You take death seriously, but also include a lot of humor in your writing about it. Why do you... Read more

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2015-10-30T11:18:06-05:00

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Yearning for soul

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 11:18 am By Guest Contributor

In a culture where technology is starving our souls, Christian institutions ought to be ready to focus on human flourishing. This was first published in Faith & Leadership. By L. Gregory Jones The best leaders engage with the deep trends shaping cultures and our broader world rather than reacting to fads and symptoms. Nathan Jones and I wrote about seven of those trends several years ago, and we still believe they are crucially important for Christian institutions. Each of them requires... Read more

2015-10-28T14:44:34-05:00

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Follow my passion where, exactly?

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 2:44 pm By Guest Contributor

This post originally appeared at OnFaith. Ask Laura appears every Tuesday at http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith and features responses to your questions about religion, relationships, and the mess they often create. You can submit questions to Laura via Twitter (@lkoturner) or email her at [email protected]. By Laura Turner Dear Laura, I graduated from a college a few years ago and after a series of part-time jobs at coffee shops and restaurants have finally gotten a job in the field I majored in. The problem is that even... Read more

2015-10-26T17:52:47-05:00

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4 Lessons About Overcoming Obstacles from R. G. LeTourneau

Last updated on: October 26, 2015 at 5:52 pm By Center for Faith and Work, LeTourneau University

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. –Booker T. Washington By Bill Peel R.G. LeTourneau was one of America’s best-known Christian businessmen in the mid-twentieth century. He made and gave away a fortune during his lifetime, and he founded a university. Although he had only seven years of formal education, LeTourneau died with 300 patents in his name and a degree in... Read more

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2015-10-26T17:45:10-05:00

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Riverdance Changed My Life: Or, How I Learned to Love Being Bored

Last updated on: October 26, 2015 at 5:45 pm By Guest Contributor

By Jordan Dillon Riverdance changed my life. Yes, THAT Riverdance: the gazelle-leaping, non-arm-swinging, inexplicably line-segmented, Irish-based, quickfooted rhythmic troupe. I was in my mid twenties and complacent at work. I was bored. I was discontent. To pass the time I would drown my sorrows in 6-8 hours of non-stop NPR programming. On one particular day they were interviewing the traveling Riverdancers and this particular interviewee was talking about how normal it all was. She was discussing how they would... Read more

2015-10-22T16:35:50-05:00

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Chasing problems is a key to social innovation

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 4:35 pm By Guest Contributor

Innovation begins with carefully listening to a community and defining the problems it’s facing. Then social innovators act, learning from failure and building on success, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School. This post was first published in Faith & Leadership. What fuels the minds of people pursuing innovations to make the world a better, more just, more livable place? Problems. Many of my colleagues like to talk about opportunities. I love the hopefulness and energy... Read more

2015-10-22T14:43:54-05:00

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Shining God’s light on a corner: Sunshine Gospel Ministries

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 2:43 pm By Mission:Work

Last year the Patheos Faith and Work Channel contacted leaders of some prominent community development and entrepreneurial organizations to talk about their attempts to transform communities through the growth of new businesses and attention to the dignity of work. The interviews were very popular and we’ve been re-running them. Here’s the last one–enjoy! By Joel Hamernick, Sunshine Gospel Ministries (note: you can also read about how SGM has worked with Partners Worldwide in a recent post) What is the basic mission... Read more

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2015-10-21T11:13:23-05:00

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Why culture-shapers are at the center of what God is doing

Last updated on: October 21, 2015 at 11:13 am By Guest Contributor

By Christ John Otto Every 500 years Western Civilization goes through a shift. These shifts are profound and take around 100 years to accomplish. If we look back in time, these rough demarcations can easily be identified. If we can look back through time, we would see that the Hellenistic era, and the flowering of Greek culture and thought began around 500 BC. This was right around the time that Darius released the Jews from captivity in Babylon and they... Read more

2015-10-20T09:52:00-05:00

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3 Signs We’ve Made Work an Idol

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 9:52 am By Jeff Haanen

I think we were arguing about asparagus. I had just sat down to dinner with my wife and three daughters (soon to be four), and amidst that cacophony of noise and food flying to plates, I started to eat. I love asparagus. I really do. But when I waited until half way through the meal to put in on my plate, my wife made a comment, I retorted, and before I knew it, we were arguing about asparagus. She went... Read more

2015-10-19T12:24:15-05:00

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The Two Messengers

Last updated on: October 19, 2015 at 12:24 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

Originally published at Ithilien. Perhaps to the clear-eyed angel There was nothing in the word he brought but glory: Infinite splendor in a point of flesh, Bursting, breaking through the veil of blood and mucus, Passing through a narrow gate To fill creation with redoubled light. Only the old man, his rheumy eyes Blurred with false hopes, Back scarred by Roman rods, Feet hard with trudging up the stony hill To watch the heroes die, Only he, perhaps, could taste... Read more

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