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Faith and Work Resources
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La hoja de ruta del Jubileo by Guy Brandon
La hoja del ruta del Jubileo
Book Description: 

"La hoja de ruta del Jubileo: Principios biblicos para contruir la sociedad del siglo XXI" is the spanish version of "The Jubilee Roadmap: Finding our way in the 21st Century" by Guy Brandon.  This book is published and sold by Andamio for 3,00 €.

¿Cómo deberíamos vivir los cristianos nuestro llamamiento a la fe en las distintas áreas de la vida, manteniéndonos fieles a la Palabra, centrados en la tarea misionera de la Iglesia, sin separar lo espiritual de lo secular y de forma coherente en una sociedad poscristiana?

El libro resume la respuesta de Jubilee Centre a ese reto. Está basada en la convicción de que todo aquello que parta de las premisas propias del individualismo, que es el principio dominante en Occidente, hará imposible entender lo que la Biblia nos dice acerca de la sociedad actual. Pero, si leemos la Palabra centrándonos en las relaciones y en el énfasis que Jesús hizo en Mateo 22:37-40, empezaremos a ver cómo se puede hacer frente a las cuestiones sociales, económicas y políticas de nuestro tiempo.

La hoja de ruta del Jubileo plantea dos modos alternativos de examinar ocho temas crucialesLa familia, la propiedad, la comunidad, el gobierno, las finanzas y la economía, el trabajo y el ocio, y el bienestar social y la justicia. Desde una de esas perspectivas, lo que prima es el individualismo, mientras que desde la otra, desde luego la menos frecuente, es el de tener en cuenta lo social y las relaciones justas y constructivas en comunidad.

Aunque breve en extensión, esta introducción a temas tan actuales aporta una perspectiva cristiana sugerente, a la vez que madura y sabia, para poder ser verdadera sal y luz en la tierra. 

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El Gran Abismo by Mark Greene
El Gran Abismo
Book Description: 

"El Gran Abismo. La separación entre lo sagrado y lo secular: el mayor desafío que enfrenta la iglesia" can be purchased from Andamio for 3,00 €.

John Stott dijo una vez:
“No podemos echar la culpa a la carne de que se pudra. El pudrirse está en su naturaleza. Pero sí que se puede culpar a la sal por no estar ahí cumpliendo su cometido”.

La auténtica cuestión será entonces: ¿es la propia iglesia la que está poniendo barreras al evangelio?

¿Cómo es que un 50 por ciento de los creyentes afirman no haber oído nunca un sermón sobre la ética en el trabajo? Y, de ser eso verdad, ¿cómo es que no lo han solicitado en su iglesia?

La raíz del problema está en una idea equivocada respecto a Dios. El antídoto es una comprensión renovada del verdadero carácter y propósitos de Dios en Cristo, y la constancia en la aplicación de esa comprensión a todas las áreas de la vida cristiana.

Puedes ver más información de este material en la microsite de El Gran Abismo

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Y tú, de mayor, ¿qué quieres ser? by David Ortega Ibáñez
Y tú, de mayor, ¿qué quieres ser?
Book Description: 

"Y tú, de mayor, ¿qué quieres ser? 25 claves para acceder al mundo laboral" by David Ortega Ibáñez. Available to purchase from Andamio for 15,00 €.  Ebook is available from AmazonKoboTodoebook and ReadOnTime

¿Cómo encontrar mi vocación? ¿Cuál es la mejor opción para completar mis estudios? ¿Cómo realizar un currículum vitae? ¿Qué hacer ante el desempleo? ¿Cómo enfrentarme a una entrevista de trabajo? ¿Qué espera mi jefe de mí?

Son preguntas que nos asaltan y generan tensión no únicamente al inicio de nuestra carrera profesional, sino que muy probablemente, estarán presentes en muchos momentos a lo largo de nuestra vida.

Todos nos enfrentamos a la dura tarea de tomar decisiones cuando terminamos los estudios, cuando nos despiden, cuando queremos cambiar de trabajo… Muchas veces vamos perdidos, sin saber muy bien dónde encontrar orientación y qué pasos seguir.

Este libro habla de nuestros miedos, de nuestros valores, de nuestra valentía para afrontar los retos con ilusión, de cómo poder descubrir nuestra auténtica identidad y ser personas significativas y relevantes en esta sociedad del siglo XXI que nos ha tocado vivir.

“Es un libro práctico y muy positivo que da unas claves muy útiles a los jóvenes que se enfrentan a uno de los primeros momentos de la verdad de su vida profesional. Es un libro que habla de comunicación y la comunicación es, ante todo y por encima de la información, pasión y sentimiento. Es decir, verdad”. Adolf Todó. Director General de Caixa Catalunya. (Autor del libro: El gran horizonte)

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Creation and Redemption Resources
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Luna Juice Bar: Fueling Recovery, Impacting Community by Rodolpho Carrasco
This is an article by Rudy Carrasco in PartnersWorldwide.org's blog
"The woman behind Luna Juice Bar embodies her unique name – Summer Shine – but that wasn’t always the case.

A few years ago, Shine was homeless in New Orleans with a husband about to leave her, a son who wouldn’t take her calls, and a mother who was planning her funeral..."

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Spirituality and Work Resources
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My Paddles Keen and Bright by R. Paul Stevens
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My Paddle’s Keen and Bright: A Reflection on Canoeing in Canada

R. Paul Stevens is Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology, Regent College. He is married to Gail, who canoes from the bow, has thee married children and eight grandchildren.

My paddle’s keen and bright,

Flashing with silver,

Swift as the wild goose flies,

Dip, dip and swing.

At an international party outside Lijiang, the ancient cross-roads of the Silk Road in Yunnan Province China, each person was asked to sing a song from their homeland. Will we sing our national anthem? (A cartoon once showed Canadians singing the anthem with the first line in bold large type and then trailing off in smaller and smaller type until there was nothing coming out of their mouths!) Gail, my wife, and I decided, after a brief conference, on a canoeing song. “My Paddle’s keen and bright / Flashing with silver / Swift as the wild goose flies / Dip, dip, and swing.” The song itself, which we both learned at Pioneer Camp in Ontario as young teenagers, has a rhythm that is evocative of the spiritual journey. It was at that camp that my love for the Canadian canoe and canoeing was birthed. There I learned the “J” stroke, the draw, the circle stroke and the Indian stroke. Now, to be politically correct, it should be called the First Nations stroke—it is a marvellous twist of the paddle so you never remove it from the water enabling you to move forward soundlessly. This amazing craft opened up our vast land of rivers and lakes. One forty pound canoe can carry two adults and a load of gear, and can be portaged over the head by one person with paddles lashed to the thwarts to rest, uneasily to be sure, on the shoulders of the canoeist.

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Money in Christian History by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Money in Christian History

by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

Many medieval manuscripts blossom with splendid decorations: fabulous animals frolic within huge capital letters; lush vegetation curls through margins; and intricate abstract patterns form dazzling frames. By the year 1300, however, gothic manuscripts began to present more distasteful sights. In one of these drawings, a worried-looking ape crouches and defecates three coins into a golden bowl. In another, a monster-head vomits gold coins into a golden bowl. The subject of money—the subject Jesus is said to have addressed more often in the Gospels than any other—now shows up graphically in Christian reflection.

It shows up, furthermore, in all of the strong ambivalence that has characterized Christian views of money through the ages. Money is shiny and beautiful, but also somehow related to filth, waste, and evil. Sigmund Freud drew modern attention to the linkage between money and excrement. Our own colloquial speech makes plain our ambivalence and even antagonism toward money: that man over there getting out of the limousine is "filthy rich" or "stinking rich," while the poor fellow leaving the casino penniless has been, ironically, "cleaned out."

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Is There a Biblical Definition of Economic Justice? by Ronald J. Sider
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Is There a Biblical Definition of Economic Justice?

Ronald J. Sider

How do we as Christians discern the nature of economic justice?  Whether or not we realize it, some normative system of values partially determines every economic decision we make.  The Bible provides norms for thinking about economics in two basic ways: the biblical story and a biblical paradigm on economic justice.

THE BIBLICAL STORY

The biblical story is the long history of God’s engagement with our world that stretches from creation through the fall and the history of redemption to the culmination of history when Christ returns.  This biblical story offers decisive insight into the nature of the material world, the dignity and character of persons, and the significance and limitations of the historical process.  For example, since every person is made by God for community, no one will ultimately be satisfied with material abundance alone, or with material abundance kept for oneself.  Since every person is so important that God became flesh to die for her sins and invite her to live forever with the living God, economic life must be ordered in a way that respects this God-given dignity.

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Is Business A Calling by R. Paul Stevens
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IS BUSINESS A CALLING?

DOES SCRIPTURE WARRANT REGARDING ENGAGEMENT IN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AS A PARTICULAR CALLING OF GOD?

R. Paul Stevens

“The Christian Church has never found it easy to come to terms with the marketplace.”
Brian Griffiths[i]

INTRODUCTION

This subject is of great interest to me because I grew up in a business home where my father conducted himself in business as a company president as though this was a calling of God. But he never spoke of it that way. In fact he always verbalized that it would have been a better thing for him to have gone into pastoral ministry. The subject is of some importance to Regent since a significant number of people come to Regent from business life but leave it and find their way into pastoral or parachurch ministry. They do this, often, on the basis of what Calvin called “a secret call,” a call within the general call that all Christians have received. A few go the other way. But behind some of this occupational transition is not only the question, Is business my calling? But is business anyone’s calling? This question is certainly important for the church. By and large the church honours the call of the pastor and missionary but does not speak of, or commission to, serve roles which people undertake in civic life or commercial enterprise. My friend William Diehl puts it this way in his earlier book, Christianity and Real Life when he was sales manager for Bethlehem Steel: ...

 


NOTES

[i] Brian Griffiths, The Creation of Wealth (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984), 9.

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Envy and Leadership Insecurity by Jon Escoto
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Envy and Leadership Insecurity

Jon Escoto

 
Leadership + Insecurity = Corporate Suicide
 
I haven’t had so much Math since I graduated from my Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.  I’ve always consigned the work of deriving mathematical formulas to the Galileo’s and Pythagoras’s of this world.  Not until today.  I just wrote one above as I reflected on the following drawing...

 

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Drivenness by R. Paul Stevens
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Drivenness is behind one of the most respectable of all addictions—workaholism. But it is also expressed in a wide variety of addictive behaviors not covered in this article: chemical abuse, religious zeal, sexual addiction, perfectionism and fitness, which are all subject to the law of diminishing returns as people try to meet their deepest needs in these ways. The condition of drivenness usually arises from sources deep within the human personality, as well as systemic problems in our society. Drivenness reveals a spiritual dysfunctionality usually associated with a failure to accept the unconditional love of God. Driven people tend to focus all their energies on an activity that feeds their inner dysfunction, and this activity becomes an addiction.

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