Category: Vocation
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One-Third Of Americans Are Working For Themselves
Business Insider: One-Third Of Americans Are Working For Themselves When the economy became unreliable, people decided to rely on themselves to propel their careers. “We see the labor market itself following the trend that we call ‘the individualization of work' — people working for themselves,” says Iain MacDonald, CEO of SkillPages. “People are increasingly either…
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Here Are The Most And Least Happy Careers
Business Insider: Here Are The Most And Least Happy Careers For more top 10 employment lists, go to myplan.com.
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Living as an Authentic Christian in a Non-Christian World
Huffington Post: Living as an Authentic Christian in a Non-Christian World – Richard Stearns After the election, I published an article in this space that struck a chord with many Christians. I suggested that engaging in a bitter 'culture war' in order to preserve America's formerly dominant Christian culture has been largely a failed strategy.…
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Saturday Links
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. There are fewer links this week. Enjoy! 1. The last typewriter rolls off the assembly line. 2. Abraham Lincoln's spirituality has been a constant topic of debate among historians. The new Lincoln movie has resurfaced the debate. Film revives questions about Abraham Lincoln's faith, but offers few answers.…
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Bloodletting Economics
Robert Lupton is the author of some excellent books like Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor and Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It). Each month he does a newsletter for FCS Ministries in Atlanta. This month was a particularly interesting piece.…
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The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries
Christianity Today: The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries How businesses are doing more holistic ministry than ever. With all the twists and turns that led to his vocation, Chuck Proudfit might never have gotten there without the quest for more efficient toilet paper. He was fresh out of college working for Procter & Gamble at…
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Saturday Links
Here are this week's odds and ends that didn't make it to the blog. Enjoy the leftovers! 1. MIT Technology Review says Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change. "Using technology to cool the planet may be the only way to deal with the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, argues…
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Finding God in Advertising
(re)integrate: Finding God in Advertising Bob Robinson In a profound chapter in A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture, Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor look at how advertising has shaped contemporary society. The authors offer "Ten Commandments of Advertising," all of which point to an overarching question that people in this (and every) culture…
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
Atlantic: The Consequences of Machine Intelligence Moshe Vardi If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? … Bill Joy's question deserves therefore not to be ignored: Does the future need us? By this I mean to ask, if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans…
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The Eternal Significance of Everyday Work
Values and Capitalism: The Eternal Significance of Everyday Work Is God calling you to the workforce or full-time ministry? Many Christian college students preparing to graduate feel as if their entire life rests on the answer to this question. During my senior year at James Madison University, I watched plans to become doctors and business…