David Myers assesses Bill Maher’s documentary film, Religulous, and comes away longing for a humble spirituality that, worshiping God with open minds as well as open hearts, creates an alternative to both purposeless scientism and dogmatic fundamentalism.
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From the spiritual point of view, work is a matter of being, of character, of what makes man man. It is not a matter of what society demands. Your identity, unless you work, is merely a theoretical identity, for you must manifest it, you must externalize it, lest the theory just collapse and you become a zero…A Christian understands that only in creative activity do we externalize the identity we have as men made in the image of God. This, then, is the true basis for work.
Udo Middelman
Pro-Existence , (p. 35-36), InterVarsity Press, 1974
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Dan Wooldridge reflects on some questions suggested by Max DePree in Leadership Jazz that followers should ask of leaders.
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Part 2 of Dan Wooldridge’s report from the Time Out Conference, October 13, 2008. Observations of the issues discussed. Os Guiness’s view on technology and speed as the central feature of globalization and how this has profoundly changed our view of time.
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Reflections from the Time Out Conference
Dan Wooldridge shares his reflections while attending the Time Out Conference. Life and spiritual growth is a process, not an event.
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The Growing Power of Asia
The current economic crisis is one dramatic earthquake that signals fundamental and massive shifts in the world’s “tectonic plates.” Globalization, technology, and innovation have outpaced systems created in the last century. One of these shifting “plates” is the rise of Asia.
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Gaining the Perspective of Wisdom
Dan Wooldridge reflects on what it takes to keep our heads when everyone is losing their’s in the midst of the current economic crisis.
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Bernard Moon explores the certainty of uncertainty and the necessity of constructing a worldview robust enough to be honestly humble.
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Understanding Debt as a Story
Dan Wooldridge recommends reading this article by Margaret Atwood on the history and meaning of debt.
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I’m convinced our most significant offerings at InsideWork help business people re-form their worldviews around biblical perspectives.
That’s why The Scriptural Roots of Commerce — the SRC — is so important to us. I used to think of the SRC as a sophisticated Bible study for business people. I don’t think that anymore. The Scriptural Roots [...]
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Donald McGilchrist tackles the foundational nature of developing a robust biblical worldview.
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What’s worse than useless data is fabricated and misleading data cynically employed to create fear or confusion by people who really should know better.
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Every August, the Education Department at Wisconsin’s Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind the school’s faculty — and the rest of us — what the world looks like for the incoming freshman class. Most of this year’s freshmen were born in 1990. They will enter the workforce in 2012 not knowing some things [...]
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Commentary on the marketing tone of a Christian publisher
Dan Wooldridge protests the idea that those who have the “proper” understanding of the meaning of work are in the Christian pulpits and publishing houses.
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