Amy Sherman begins Chapter 8 of Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good (InterVarsity Press, 2011) with a bang! Jesus is actually looking for people He can trust with His power. -- Dallas Willard Faithful vocational stewardship is not only about doing, it's also about being. To deploy their vocational power for the common good, believers must possess a character that handles this power humbly and eschews its misuse. This is why discipling for vocational stewardship involves not only the work … [Read more...] about Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways
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Do We See the People or Their Poverty?
Kami Rice continues her guest series for the Emerging Scholars Blog about her journey to India. Since the day my high school youth group reported to our congregation about our mission trip to Brazil, when some of the other kids–some of whom had discussed, as we drove through Miami during our debriefing time, which fancy new car they wanted their parents to buy for them–poured stories into the microphone about how poor the people were, I've had an uneasy relationship with how church people talk about … [Read more...] about Do We See the People or Their Poverty?
Heading East: Kami in India
I'm pleased to introduce our second guest blogger of the summer and our first international correspondent. Kami L. Rice recently joined InterVarsity staff to work with graduate and professional students in Nashville, but she has extensive experience as a freelance writer with a large number of credits to her name. Kami is in the middle of a 4-week journey to India. She plans to connect with students and faculty while there, but she begins her series this week with reflections on a previous trip to India and on the … [Read more...] about Heading East: Kami in India
Quote: Chesterton on Childlike Delight
Continuing our Summer Quotation Series from Hannah Eagleson. The second quotation in this series comes from G. K. Chesterton, good-humored apologist and writer: A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to … [Read more...] about Quote: Chesterton on Childlike Delight
The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process
Have you ever considered The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process? Al Hsu, an editor (and author) for InterVarsity Press, skillfully explores The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process in Chapter 5 of the recently published A Spiritual Life: Perspectives from Poets, Prophets, and Preachers (Allan Hugh Cole Jr., ed. Westminster John Knox Press. 2011). As I've spent the past several months considering The Incarnational Stream/Tradition, I particularly appreciated Hsu's section entitled The Practice of Incarnational … [Read more...] about The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process