Category: Vocation
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Business as Calling
Last summer, I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Thom Thomson, professor of finance at the University of Texas. Dr. Thomson was in Toronto a week ago preaching at his brother's church, Every Nation, Greater Toronto. The topic was "Business as Calling." This is a wonderful presentation! You can find the 30 sermon at Faith…
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The Active Life – 8. “Threatened With Resurrection”: Acts of Death or New Life. Parker Palmer
Today we come to the eighth and final chapter in Parker Palmer's The Active Life: A Spirituality of Creativity, Work, and Caring, titled "' Threatened With Resurrection': Acts of Death or New Life." The Horizons of Action In this final chapter, Palmer offers insight into the meaning of resurrection. He opens by reminding us that…
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The Active Life – 7. “Loaves and Fishes”: Acts of Scarcity or Abundance. Parker Palmer
Today we come to the seventh chapter in Parker Palmers’ The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, titled “’Loaves and Fishes’: Acts of Scarcity or Abundance.” We will begin with a review of Palmer’s main points. I agree with his general conclusion in this chapter, but I find his path to his…
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The Active Life – 6. “Jesus in the Desert”: The Temptations of Action. Parker Palmer
Continuing our series on Parker Palmer's The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, we look at Chapter 6, "' Jesus in the Desert': The Temptations of Action." The story in this chapter is the temptation of Jesus in the desert as given in Luke 4:1-15, (Jerusalem Bible, modified by Palmer with inclusive…
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Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship
The High Calling: Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship “How can we create a congregation where work and discipleship are truly integrated?” This is a question I am hearing more often, even though much has been written about a theology of work in recent years. Pastors and church leaders…
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The Active Life – 5. “The Angel”: Action, Failure and Suffering. Parker Palmer
Today we move to chapter five, "The Angel": Action, Failure and Suffering, in Parker Palmer's The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring. This chapter features a story by Martin Buber, "The Angel and the World's Dominion." To preface this story, Palmer notes that Martin Buber was a Jewish philosopher, and what he…
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The Benefits of Servant Leadership
Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge" has a post, Why Isn't 'Servant Leadership' More Prevalent?, which is a bit strange because the article never addresses the question. However, I did think this was interesting: Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are attempting to measure the impact of servant leadership…