“I wish my pastor understood me, believed in me, commissioned me.” I have been sitting with those words for weeks now. They were spoken at a recent conference by Jess Chin—Lausanne Movement board member and founder of Liminal, a collective shaping the next era of global leadership. Jess was talking about Gen Z’s desire for...
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My college roommate taught himself to code before social media made it look cool. By nineteen, he was a full-time independent contractor, running a business from what used to be our porch and was now a high-functioning tech cave. One afternoon, he emerged with computer-glossed eyes and asked me a question I wish I had...
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Right after graduating from seminary, I served as a director of children’s ministry in a local church. There, I met a deacon who became a good friend in my life. He and his family loved and served the Lord by pouring out their time and lives to support the ministry of the church. The deacon...
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Many pastors and social commentators have noted the irony of Labor Day in the United States, that we celebrate work by…not working. One of my church elders loved to begin talks on faith and work with the $64,000,000 question.[i] The question was simple: “If I gave you $64,000,000 today, would you be at work tomorrow?”...
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I was nervous as I stood up in front of the audience of scientists and engineers. I’d been invited to give a keynote at this conference, but I was not sure whether many of them would be interested in my topic: generative artificial intelligence and the future of work. It seemed to have snowed indoors...
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In AD 52, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter, either the first or second New Testament epistle ever written, to a small church in the city of Thessalonica, a church he had started not long before. This church was planted in a highly cosmopolitan, affluent, powerful city where Christians struggled with the same kinds of...
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