Editor’s note: In Andrew Peterson’s latest book, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making, Peterson, a singer-songwriter and author, makes the case that...
What comes to mind when you think about salt? For most of us in a modern context, we think about the small canister sitting on our kitchen table...
Since our banishment from the Garden of Eden, man has faced a central cultural dilemma: how do we fulfill God’s creation mandate in a world of aggravated scarcity...
“Raise your hand if you’re going into full-time ministry.” This was spoken by the dean of the School of Business at the graduation dinner the December I finished...
In the beginning, God created… (Gen. 1:1) Throughout the history of Christianity, a sort of Christian hierarchy of accepted vocations emerged. At the top are those that answered...
Our culture has a crisis in calling. We’ve been exploring this crisis, and how a biblical perspective on work can help us address it. A biblical view of...
Recently, I taught on some of the basic biblical principles on work in Gen. 1:28 and Gen. 2:15 that describe Adam and Eve as God’s coworkers. As I...
Vocation is a wonderfully broad and encompassing word. In contrast to how we normally think about calling, as something having to do with our career or professional work,...
It’s only the first day of summer and I’ve already logged numerous hours on my lawnmower cutting the grass. We’ve had record rainfall in the Washington, D.C. metro...
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