Archive for the 'Work' Category
In curious of the breakdown for employment in our church. ACL people please take the poll and fill in the blank if your field of work isn’t listed.
New Article: Community and the Cubicle
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 4th, 2009 on Creation ProjectWhat 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 […]
The High Calling is running a brief article I wrote called “In the Workplace, But Not of It.” This ministry offers a variety of resources to help Christians glorify God in everyday life and work. It’s rare that we come across such practically helpful and biblically reflective ministries. For instance, check out Mark Roberts regular […]
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. - […]
Many of us dread the office, even worse, the cubicle. Ironically, the cubicle was originally designed to foster human creativity, increase a new sense of success and vocational vitality. According to Nikil Saval, when Robert Propst created the cubicle in the 60s, he declared: “We are a nation of office dwellers. The face of capitalism […]
Tim Chester is co-author of Total Church:
Have you ever been irritated because there was a queue at the supermarket till?
Do you regularly work thirty minutes a day longer than your contracted hours?
Do you check work emails and phone messages at home?
Has anyone ever said to you: ‘I didn’t want to trouble you because I know […]
Great article by Joan Chittister here on vocation and the spirituality of work.
“Work,” the Persian poet Gilbran writes, “is love made visible.” The meaning is clear: We do not work for ourselves, we work so that others may not […]
I like to blame my infrequent posts on the fact that I’m something on the order of months overdue on this other project. Not that I’m working on it every hour of every day, but taking the time out to blog would seem to be an especially egregious flaunting of the deadline.
Anyway, last week I […]