Walk onto almost any Christian college campus and you can hear these two big ideas being taught: Christians should challenge their spheres of influence with Christian truth claims....
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands. —Psalm 90:17...
In order to understand the Biblical doctrine of work, we must clearly understand the differences between vocational calling and career, occupation, or job. Vocational calling is the call...
Harvard Business School psychologist Timothy Butler offers the following advice in an article about how vocation differs from career or job: There are three words that tend to...
Following up on our post discussing cultural movements in the 17th-19th centuries that have shaped our view of work, let’s not fail to address Karl Marx. While Marxism...
While the Reformers and the Puritans helped to recover the Biblical understanding of “calling” and how it applies to the everyday work of all Christians, their efforts were...
Recently we have looked at how the early church and the church in the Middle Ages drove a wedge between the sacred and secular aspects of the lives...
In our last post, we saw how the contribution of the early church fathers created the idea that pursuing the contemplative life or a professional role in the...
By the beginning of the third century we begin to see a subtle shift in the way Christians understood vocation. Conflicts with Jews and pagans gave rise to...
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