How to form wise Christian institutional leaders in an uncertain world
Our patterns of education and formation must nurture practical wisdom, encourage unlikely friendships and seed understanding about the ecosystems an institution needs to survive, writes the theologian...
View ArticleWhen Shark Tank Met the Church: An Update on Innové
Reprinted from Seedbed. See MISSION:WORK’s 2014 interview with Brian Jones here. By Brian Jones On Friday, January 11, 2013, Rev. Daniel Harrell and I sat down with our wives to watch Triple Expresso,...
View ArticleWhy Healthcare Matters to God
Fighting Mortality One of the most amazing and simultaneously depressing stories in the Bible (from a worldly perspective) is the resurrection of Lazarus in John 11. Amazing, because we see the...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship and Escaping Ennui
By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Belgian painter Erik Pevernagle says, “In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be,...
View ArticleWhy Are There So Few Mainline Celebrities?
The chilly relationship between mainline Protestantism and the popular marketplace has become a stable feature of the former’s self-understanding. Reprinted from Faith&Leadership. By Kate Bowler...
View ArticleWe Have to Dare to Preach the Gospel
In this interview, the leader of the Moral Mondays movement talks about leading in the public square. Reprinted from Faith&Leadership. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the president of the...
View ArticleReflections of a Rookie Retiree
Here are my reflections from my first year of retirement and my conversations with many other retirees who have shared their insights.
View ArticleThe Sunday-Monday Connection: A Labor Day Sermon
By J. Fletcher Lowe; preached on Labor Day 2017 I have a friend named Bill Diehl. A few years ago, he retired as an executive with a major steel manufacturing company here in the East. He also was a...
View ArticleThe Frosting on the Cake, Or Why We Need Artists
By Christ John Otto, from a forthcoming book. A worldview is a way of processing the world around you. It is the “lens” a person uses to see things, process information, and organize information in...
View ArticleThe Use of Money
How we Earn, Save, and Give our money is all meant to give life to us and to the world around us.
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