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How Then Shall We Work: Should Christian Engineers Pursue Productivity?, Kayt Frisch, Michael Foster, Justin R. Vander Werff

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Technology critics like Neal Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) and Nicholas Carr (The Shallows) have long held forth that our technology shapes us. In recent years, philosophers (including some that have presented at past Christian Engineering Conferences) have explored the value-ladenness of engineering design and how the biases in our technology affect us on a daily basis. A “hidden in plain sight” technology that we interact with everyday is our approach to getting things done, or our “productivity system.” While everyone has a productivity system, that is, a way of organizing, prioritizing, and executing tasks, some have thought more explicitly …

Looking For “Deep Rest”: Confronting The Idolatry Of Personal Success, Justin Bailey

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"Despite our best efforts to build platforms and manage our personal 'brands', God is the one who gives ultimate meaning to our lives.

Posting about finding rest in God from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/looking-for-deep-rest-confronting-the-idolatry-of-personal-success/

Labor Day: Stories Of Work, James C. Schaap

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"Covid has forced us to honor people who’ve never made more than minimum wage yet suddenly have become irreplaceable."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the value of work from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/labor-day-stories-of-work/

Should We Be On Fire?, Tim Klein

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"A new personal finance craze is catching the attention of many millennials. FIRE, or Financial Independence and Retire Early, is a push to get out of the daily grind of the 9 to 5 workday."

Posting about the gift of work from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/should-we-be-on-fire/

Labor Day, The Side-Eye Holiday, Howard Schaap

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"Something about the way we practice Labor Day itself suggests we’re not all that sincere about valuing labor or at least valuing all labor."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­atttitudes about work from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/labor-day-the-side-eye-holiday/

More Than Work, Erik Hoekstra

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"If the future looks like a place with less of a need for us to work, what will that mean for our joy?"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­work as a gift from God from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/more-than-work/

Our Stereotypical American Family, Kayt E. Frisch, Kurt Frisch

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"God has blessed us in different ways, so shouldn’t we play to the strengths God has given us?"

Posting about a stay-at-home dad family from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/our-stereotypical-american-family/

How Do Spouses Divide The Load?, Donald Roth, Erica Roth

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"We don’t have it all figured out, but we’ve got each other’s backs, and, in the end, by the grace of God, that’s enough."

Posting about sharing family tasks from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/how-do-spouses-divide-the-load/

Voluntourism, Aaron Baart

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"The missio dei is God’s work in the world. Missions, both long- and short-term, must always exist in submission to God’s work."

Posting about increasing impact in mission work from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/voluntourism/

Working As A Christian, Craig L. Stiemsma

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"Our work, even when mundane, needs to be an offering to God. We need to make that offering our best work, regardless of what work we are called to do."

Posting about being a Christ-like example at our workplace from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/working-as-a-christian/

Doing Business Christianly, Dale Zevenbergen

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"We are also called, in doing our work Christianly, to join God in His redemptive work–as Christ brings everything to its conclusion in perfect shalom."

Posting about Christian life and work­­­­­­­­ from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/doing-business-christianly/

Gift Of Rest, Aaron Baart

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Posting about ­­­­­­­­the blessing of Sabbath rest from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-gift-of-rest/

Doing A Little More For Jesus, David J. Mulder

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"Work is an essential, integral part of my life! It isn’t separate from the rest of my life any more than being a husband or father is separate from the rest of my life."

Posting about a healthy work-life balance from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/doing-a-little-more-for-jesus/

Psalm For The Night Shift, Leah A. Zuidema

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"Night shift work isn't glamorous. It is often thankless work, the kind that goes unnoticed when it is done well, and is commented on only when it is not completed as expected. The same is true for the night shift in the house of the Lord: we don't often think about it."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­"behind the scenes" kingdom work from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/a-psalm-for-the-night-shift/

How (And Why) To Give The Gift Of Rest, Leah A. Zuidema

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"Rest is an acknowledgement that we are finite and can't do it all."

Posting about providing the gift of rest to others from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/how-and-why-to-give-the-gift-of-rest/

Rest And Re-Creation, Neal Deroo

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"Growing up Calvinist, I was raised with the famed 'Protestant work ethic'.'"

Posting about the balance of work and leisure from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/rest-and-re-creation/

Finding Your Path, Michael Foster, Justin Vander Werff

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Each of us has a desire to do good, fulfilling work. How do we find this work? Do we discover it or is it something we create for ourselves? If we believe there is a particular area in which we should work, then work decisions can become even more burdensome. Since there are so many areas in which we could work, and many more we may not even know about, how do we know if we have chosen the right path? These questions are particularly acute for college students. From first-year students through seniors, some aspect of their journey toward …

George Boole: His Life And Work (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: George Boole: His Life and Work by Desmond MacHale. (Profiles of Genius Series, 2.) xiii + 304 pp., illus., bibls., index. Dublin: Boole Press, 1985.