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FAITH & WORK – Daily Devotions
Life isn’t always easy. At times we all face tough choices, pressure in relationships, and demands on our time. These resources will help you find fresh ways to pray and meditate about your work – if not every day, then whenever you get the opportunity.
Faith & Work Key Passages
Here are some key passages and role models from the Bible to read and reflect on.
Jesus And The Racing Rat:
This engagingly written book is a little gem that will help you think about your work from a completely different perspective. Geoff Shattock describes his purpose in life as finding angles for people to see Jesus of Nazareth in a way they have not seen him before. In this creatively different exploration of the modern “race”, he certainly achieves that, provoking us to think differently about how to tackle the things that make our work challenging.
Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions:
If you want to learn about the seven big ideas underpinning capitalist theory, this is a great primer. If you’re already familiar with concepts such as competition, agency theory, market pricing and shareholder primacy, this book provides a thought-provoking critique of ideas that most business managers have taken for granted for many years.
After Capitalism
The Old and New Testaments are full of economic thinking – often profound thinking that Christians today would benefit from re-learning. After the financial crisis of 2008, Mills and Schluter realised that Europe faces one of its greatest peacetime crises, in which capitalism is failing to provide adequate solutions to the needs of citizens all over the continent. This series of essays puts forward a theological framework that not only critiques conventional economic wisdom but also proposes pragmatic alternatives based on the premise that God, as a relational being, prioritises not economic growth but right relationships.