2015-02-09T17:24:48-05:00

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 5:24 pm   By

(This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement.) By Heather Zimmerman  In this installment of our series featuring resources on Faith, Work, and Economics, we recommend Flourishing Churches and Communities. In his book, Charlie Self specifically challenges Pentecostal believers, calling them to a level of discipleship that integrates faith, work, and economics so that believers view their work in light of God’s design for flourishing their communities. The first half... Read more

2015-02-09T17:25:22-05:00

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 5:25 pm   By

This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement.) In this installment of our series featuring resources on Faith, Work and Economics, we recommend When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert When Helping Hurts presents foundational concepts about poverty from a distinctly Christian worldview, focusing on key principles and practical strategies for churches and individuals to reflect God’s grace while effectively contributing to poverty alleviation. Using a variety of... Read more

2014-12-22T16:59:59-05:00

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 4:59 pm   By

By Nathan Roberts The Middle Class is dying. So what? This question opens A.O. Scott’s fascinating response to Thomas Piketty’s bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century. “The book’s thesis,”Scott explains, is “that economic inequality in the developed world is increasing, with potentially dire consequences for social justice and democratic governance.” According to Piketty, the Western dream of an economically egalitarian world is naïve and, ultimately, untenable. His diagnosis hits the Democratic Idealist––for whom “the expansion of the middle class…unfolded according... Read more

2015-02-09T17:25:51-05:00

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This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement. In this installment of our series featuring resources on Faith, Work and Economics, we recommend Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace. In this book, Wong and Rae present a Christian perspective on work, focusing on the concept of business as a transformational service for the common good. Incorporating a variety of real-world stories, the authors explain how... Read more

2015-04-07T13:20:04-05:00

Last updated on: April 7, 2015 at 1:20 pm   By

Joseph Sunde InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Blog recently posted two reviews of Abraham Kuyper’s Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art, one from Dan Jesse, the other from David Carlson. Carlson nicely summarizes some of the book’s key implications for the life of the believer: One does not need to do Christian science or Christian art to be a faithful Christian in those domains.  One needs to do good science or good art. Yet, science and art are powerful tools that come without a... Read more

2014-12-08T11:53:05-05:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2014 at 11:53 am   By

This post first appeared here at the blog of the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement. In this installment of our series featuring resources on Faith, Work, and Economics, we recommend Amy Sherman’s Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good. Sherman’s work helps pastors, ministry leaders, and laypeople integrate the concepts of faith and work while advancing kingdom purposes through their vocations, including true stories of vocational stewardship in action. Focusing primarily on professional, entrepreneurial, and creative... Read more

2014-12-04T15:47:51-05:00

Last updated on: December 4, 2014 at 3:47 pm   By

This post originally appeared at the Oikonomia Network. One of the things I do most frequently in my work is recommend books. There are tens of thousands of titles on this topic, and quality is very uneven. People need to know what titles they can trust to be a fruitful investment of their time. It has been part of my role to serve as a sort of book recommendation clearinghouse. As the network began to scale up almost three years... Read more

2014-12-04T15:47:35-05:00

Last updated on: December 4, 2014 at 3:47 pm   By

This post originally appeared at Grateful to the Dead. Friend Phil Harrold at Trinity School for Ministry in Pittsburgh asks (in the comments area of this post), “What are your top picks for books on Christian faith and vocation?” Here’s my off-the-cuff answer: If you are willing to do some selection, a great sourcebook is Callings, by William Placher. Steve Garber’s new Visions of Vocation is more involved, but also more narrative – likely especially appealing/useful for millennials or at... Read more

2015-04-07T13:20:17-05:00

Last updated on: April 7, 2015 at 1:20 pm   By

(This post originally appeared at the blog Visions of Vocation.) Many of you already know of Byron Borger’s brilliant book review blog, Hearts and Minds Booknotes.  It’s part of a truly different Christian bookstore, Hearts and Minds, which tries to serve serious readers and serious Christians: Welcome to a bookstore which attempts to create a new space for serious, reflective readers. Unabashedly Christian, we are often told that we are different than most religious bookstores. Our name, we trust, gives a... Read more

2015-01-12T10:04:17-05:00

Last updated on: January 12, 2015 at 10:04 am   By

This movie has been out for just over a month (its release was Oct 31, 2104), but we’ll start with the now-customary warning . . . ****SPOILERS: If you are tempted to see this grim, Breaking-Bad-esque moral spiral of a movie (which, in this reviewer’s opinion, is brilliantly done), you will likely want to skip this review until you’ve seen it. As the TV announcers say throughout this film: Viewer Discretion is Advised – Graphic Scenes (and plot points) will... Read more

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