Faith • Biblical Reflections Everything is Broken Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read Work may have been made good, even pleasurable, but the simple fact is that it is not for most people today. One of my friends likes to ask the proverbial 64 Million Dollar Question: “If I gave you 64 million dollars today, would you be at work tomorrow?” As you can imagine, the answer he receives from... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections “Let’s Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start” Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” Julie Andrews sang Rodgers and Hammerstein’s famous line in The Sound of Music. And that’s good advice. Genesis 1 and 2 bear a disproportionate influence on our understanding of our world because they show us the way God made it – before human... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections A Meditation on Excess Productivity: Great Gifts, Stewarded Badly Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read Genesis 3: 14-20 describes the curse that befalls creation after Adam and Eve have disobeyed God in the garden. We then hear the stories of their descendants and the story of the Flood before we end up at the tower of Babel in the eleventh chapter. Very quickly, these stories set up the narrative of... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Living the Blame Game Scott Phillips | 3 min read I live in the midst of the blame game – I work for a general contractor. In the construction industry, you exist in this middleman role between the owner and architect who hire you to build a building and the subcontractors who actually build it. The general contractor (us) is like the drill sergeant or... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work The Ethics of Buying Squash Katelyn Kuck | 4 min read We are privileged in terms of being fed – as Americans, we spend a smaller percentage of our incomes on food than citizens of any other developed country. We are blessed with a government that funds research into improving food production and better understanding nutrition and health. We are blessed with a more stable food... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections The Babel-onians and the American Dream Emily Balint | 3 min read In a strange way, reading about the Tower of Babel reminds me of the American Dream. Those builders in the land of Shinar had a twofold goal as they began their tower: they wanted to make a name for themselves and to prevent themselves from being scattered across the world. That sounds a lot like... Continue Reading
