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Resources for Working to Renew the City

Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 11th, 2010 on Creation Project

The topic of work is all to often absent from church pulpits and Christian discussion. Yet it is where we spent most of our time apart from our beds. To ignore the Christian perspective on Work is to fail at being the church and living on mission. On Sunday we began the conversation about how […]

New Article: Community and the Cubicle

Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 4th, 2009 on Creation Project

What do cubicles, tobacco farming, and the church have in common?
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact with the real world, the cubicle is scorned for suffocating productivity and community. Attempts to […]

Project on Lived Theology

Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson December 10th, 2008 on Creation Project

At Virginia University there is a Project on Lived Theology that aims to reflect theologically on the practices of everyday life. The website says: “It is our conviction that the patterns and practices of religious communities offer rich and generative material for theological inquiry. These patterns and practices are not just ways of “doing things” […]

More on Creative Thinking

Closed Published by jdodson July 11th, 2008 on Creation Project

Write it down. - Encourage your team to write and share their lives with others. (More blogging!)
Hire smart. - Hire risk-takers. You need people that are willing to embrace change.
Bring in outsiders. - Bring in outside perspective to expand your thinking. (That’s how we arrived at our live-streaming technology for multi-site.)
Be flexible. Very flexible. - […]

New Article: How Should We Then Work?

Closed Published by jdodson December 6th, 2007 on Creation Project

Boundless is running one of my new articles on a redemptive approach to work entitled “How Should We Then Work?“
An excerpt:

In many respects, work is the engine of civilization. Without work, societies would not perpetuate. Furthermore, if as Schaeffer argues, the rise and decline of civilization is intimately intertwined with the strength and weakness of […]

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