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Careers, Workplace and Religion

2014-08-19T14:18:09-05:00

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Why you should study philosophy, even if you’re a plumber

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

Recently Scott Samuelson, a community college professor, posted an article at The Atlantic under the provocative title “Why I teach Plato to Plumbers.” His argument is mainly about the importance of opening study of the liberal arts to all people, but it has important implications for integrating faith and work. He writes, Once, when I told a guy on a plane that I taught philosophy at a community college, he responded, “So you teach Plato to plumbers?” Yes, indeed. But... Read more

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2014-06-06T15:08:01-05:00

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What does faith and work mean to blue-collar workers?

Last updated on: June 6, 2014 at 3:08 pm By Oikonomia Network

Recently on the Oikonomia Network, pastor Blaine Crawford pondered the white-collar orientation of many of his colleagues in the faith and work movement after returning from a recent conference: During the session, one of the speakers said that while we used to work to meet needs lower on this hierarchy, we now search for meaning, fulfillment, and purpose in our work ‒ the higher levels in the hierarchy. In Maslow’s terminology, we seek to become self-actualized. Implicit to his statement,... Read more

2014-08-19T14:18:10-05:00

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Does capitalism have a future?

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

Those of you out there reading this blog have a number of things you want to hear about, we know….how to serve God in your daily work, how to build a better world through your work, how to find hope amidst unemployment and discouragement. We also know that at least some of you are interested in an occasional post on the “big picture” of not just faith at work, but faithful economics. As such, we want to let you know... Read more

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Faith and the Marketplace

2014-08-19T15:43:34-05:00

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Patheos Faith and Work Channel welcomes a new blogger

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 3:43 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

Patheos Faith and Work Channel welcomes our newest blogger, J. B. Wood of “Shrinking the Camel.” J. B. is a businessman trying to bring his spiritual life and his business life together. Read more about his struggles and joys, and leave him a comment, here. We are excited to welcome J.B. to the channel. Stay tuned as from time to time we feature some of his work in this space as well! Read more

Faith and the Workplace

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2014-08-19T14:18:10-05:00

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Listen to a banker talk about serving God in her work

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

Recently, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s The Well website, a ministry for graduate and professional women, sat down with Christian banker Patricia Snyder to talk about how she serves God in her family and professional life. She described early influences on her calling: My father was a banker, and I always found it appealing that he knew everybody in our hometown. He knew all that was going on in the community. My first banking job, while in college, was stuffing bank statements one... Read more

2014-06-04T10:47:31-05:00

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Four ways to help people who are out of work

Last updated on: June 4, 2014 at 10:47 am By Made to Flourish

Ever feel like a lot of conversation about faith and work is about people with good jobs and rewarding lives? So did pastor Trevor Lee: How do you approach faith, work, and economics with those who have little or no consistent work? As I move deeper into the conversation around faith, work, and economics, I’ve noticed that most of the illustrations and stories I hear are about people with good jobs—even if these are jobs people don’t particularly enjoy. I... Read more

2014-08-19T14:18:10-05:00

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Why do we feel like we never finish working?

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

This gem from Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work came our way today courtesy of the folks at culture is not optional: Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to. We confront our lost energies in the pathos of the retirement party. How different everything is for the craftsman... Read more

2014-08-19T14:18:11-05:00

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Are you a dinosaur?

Last updated on: August 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

In a recent article on the Christianity Today website, Art Lindsley of the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics inaugurates an occasional series of articles at CT on issues of faith and economics. He does so with a famous story from C. S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian: In C. S. Lewis’s TheVoyage of the Dawn Treader, King Caspian encounters Gumpas, the Governor of the Lone Islands. Gumpas tells Caspian that the slave trade practiced in his domain is an “essential part of the... Read more

Institute for Faith Work and Economics

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2014-05-30T12:59:06-05:00

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Why do we need relationships?

Last updated on: May 30, 2014 at 12:59 pm By Made to Flourish

In a post on the Kern Pastors Network (part 4 of a series KPN is running on relationships and poverty), Kyle Bushre ponders the movie It’s a Wonderful Life): The message that friendship is true wealth is captured clearly in the inscription of the book given to George by the angel, “Dear George, Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” But at the risk of ruining a Christmas classic, let’s focus on that money. George had no idea thousands... Read more

2015-01-12T10:53:10-05:00

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Redeeming work in the Twin Cities

Last updated on: January 12, 2015 at 10:53 am By Patheos Faith and Work Channel

On June 12, 2014, Christian leaders from church and marketplace are going to meet in Minneapolis-St. Paul at the Art House North in an event sponsored by Leadership Journal’s “Redeeming Work” initiative to talk about how faith and work meet and how Christians can transform culture. Read more here, where you can also register for the event ($99 through June 11, $109 on site). And if you can’t go, the Faith and Work Channel’s own senior editor, Chris Armstrong, will be live-blogging... Read more

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