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EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED
The Challenge of Being Perennial People

Yesterday I got a letter from a university professor in Uganda, wondering whether I thought students today were different than those of a generation ago—in particular, whether the cynicism of Beavis and Butthead had been replaced with the hope of Obama. It is a very good question. As I responded, I thought of the strangeness of the question being asked by someone teaching in Africa, realizing one more time that the pop and political icons of America are the air we all breathe in the “hot, flat and crowded” globalizing world of the twenty-first century.....MORE >

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The Washington Institute is a still-point...connecting knowing and doing, heart and mind, belief and behavior, worldview and way of life...
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Vocare: Conversations about Calling >

We all long to do work that matters. Young people hope and dream for vocations that require their best, that somehow make money and make meaning at the same time...
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International Arts Movement Podcast >

The arts are both a reflection of and an argument for what we believe about life and the world. Can we learn to sing songs, make films, and paint, act, dance, and sculpt in ways that are rooted in the truest truths of the universe, but in language the whole world can understand? Listen to this interview given by Steve.



Your Work Matters to God!

by Michael Stewart

Do you sometimes wonder if your work has any real meaning to God? In light of eternity, is my job really seen as significant in God's view? Is it merely to provide a conduit of evangelism? Is it just something for me to do in order to pay the bills that are due each month? Do you sometimes feel you live a double life - church on Sunday, but back to work life on Monday? Could it be possible that our spiritual life, our faith, can have something to do with the making of money?
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CAPITALISM WITH A CONSCIENCE
Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, the Tiananmen Square Leaders, and You

An address delivered at Urbana 09 in the Business as Mission track by Steve Garber

Two years ago this week I was in India, visiting two of our children who were working there that year. We didn’t see everything, at all. But we did travel through the south, in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—and of course in our seeing and hearing and smelling, were keenly aware that we were in a very different world.
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Let It Flow Out

Interview with N. T. Wright
by Mark D. Roberts

Bishop N. T. Wright is arguably one of the most important theologians writing today. He's published everything from weighty theological tomes like Christian Origins and the Question of God, to accessible commentaries like Paul for Everyone: The Pastoral Letters, to inspirational books like Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope. When N. T. Wright agreed to lead an intimate retreat at Laity Lodge, we took the opportunity to ask him about honoring God in everyday life and work.
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Full of Beans

by Andi Ashworth

I recently learned I have high cholesterol, which comes as a shock to my youngest-child-always-surprised-at-aging self. In response to the news, I've stepped up my walking program. I even walk the treadmill at the YMCA when the temperature dips down-something I'm loathe to do, since I'd rather be outside moving from one place to another, enjoying the scenery. The treadmill became tolerable only after I realized I could read a book and walk at the same time!
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Quotables >

"...Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue; Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think, or speak, or do. The task thy wisdom hath assigned, O let me cheerfully fulfil; In all my works thy presence find, And prove thine acceptable will. ..."


Charles Wesley


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