Center for Faith & Work at LeTourneau University
Put Fear In Its Place - Lessons From a Former Airline Executive
Scott Dickson is the former CEO and president of Vanguard airlines, a position he took in early 2001 with full understanding that it was a turnaround situation. The airline was in trouble, and it was his job to reverse a bad situation. Then 9/11 changed everything. In his book, Never...
Inspiring the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
ABOUT THE COURSE from the Praxis website AT PRAXIS, WE BELIEVE THE FUTURE OF CULTURE DEPENDS LARGELY ON THE WORLDVIEW OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS, INNOVATORS, AND CREATORS. They have outsized influence on what we consume, believe and desire—as they build products, services,...
What Are Your Dreams? They Might Be Too Small.
In 1954, a young man accepted the call to become the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Over the next fourteen years he devoted his life to confronting racism in America and mobilized thousands of Americans to join him in non-violent civil disobedience to laws...
Why Packing Lunches and Helping with Homework Have Eternal Value | Anna Arnold
by Anna Arnold Do you wonder what you’re accomplishing when you have to cajole and cheerlead your kids through their homework each night? Or how about getting up at the crack of dawn to play air-traffic controller for the morning routine—packing lunches, making...
Fighting Zombies at Work
Have you ever felt half-alive on Monday morning, facing a week of impossible deadlines, challenging circumstances, or decaying relationships? The following article from our friends at The High Calling and Theology of Work Project reminds us that our world is in a constant state of decay,...
Wednesday Wisdom Podcasts
Our new podcasts are perfect to download and listen to on your commute. Be sure to subscribe to our channel on Sound Cloud as well as our channel on iTunes Podcasts. Here's the first Podcast in the series: Taking Faith to Work.
Designed to Work: Redeeming Architecture
When the Texas Rangers play the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Field, I grimace when Jose Altuve or George Springer put the home run train in motion. But then I think about the folks who designed the Astro's beautiful stadium. If you're a baseball fan -- especially if you...
2016 Faith@Work Summit Videos
More than 400 leaders from business, the church, academia and workplace ministries, from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, and Croatia, gathered for the 2016 Faith@Work Summit--and were joined by 100 online. All 26 videos of plenary...
All Work Matters | Mike Rowe
In a recent interview on Meet the Press, Mike Rowe, the former host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” lamented what he perceives to be a general lack of enthusiasm for work—and a particular lack of enthusiasm for the kind of work featured on his show: physically-demanding, often socially...
Churches Where Work Matters
In 2002, Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan asked tech-industry veteran Katherine Leary Alsdorf to establish and lead Redeemer’s Center for Faith & Work, which became a pioneering faith-at-work church ministry. Today, more and more churches are seeing the need to help people...
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