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
Vocation • On Daily Work Woodworking, Building a Business, and Spiritual Formation in Light of Genesis 1 Collin Young | 3 min read In Genesis 1, God worked. He made this world and made us – in His image. And He said it was good, even very good. For me, the best way I feel that I image God well is through turning wood. My most recent project involved creating a wooden stand for my straight razor and... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work With Jimmy and Louise in Stuarts Draft Stanton Coman | 4 min read When I was a child I was lucky enough to have two sets of incredible grandparents who lived less than two hours away. My mother’s parents, Jimmy and Louise, lived in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in a little town called Stuarts Draft. It’s a farm town, a slow town and I... 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 Screaming Louder than God Will Thompson | 3 min read Work often seems to scream louder than God when I walk into my office on Massachusetts Avenue – especially in light of Genesis 3:17b-19: Cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you... Continue Reading
