By Bethany Jenkins, Christianity Today My “current reads” make their home on my nightstand. Like residents of a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan, they are piled high and constantly in transition. Sometimes a book has a one-night stand, like Amy Julia Becker’s Small Talk, which I finished in just six hours. Other times one stays…
By Susan Fikse, byFaith Mike Rowe apprenticed at hundreds of the most reviled jobs in America as host of “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel — he milked camels, picked up roadkill, castrated sheep, lashed down crab pots, and slithered through sewers. He found that those employed in such jobs are the happiest, most balanced…
By Art Lindsley At least in America, evangelical churches have largely neglected the subjects of faith, work, and calling. We tend to focus on salvation, evangelism, or basic personal discipleship (Bible reading, prayer, fellowship) but ignore what most people do 40, 60, or 80 hours a week. When I read the following quote from William…