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Focused
It’s easy to lose focus when feeling overwhelmed with new challenges.
Charlotte Screnock
June 7, 2022
1
min read
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Transitioning well into working life
The beginning of professional life is a time of challenge and a time of opportunity.
Charlotte Screnock
May 25, 2022
1
min read
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Rooted
Transition explores the need to continually put our trust in the Lord, and how that trust will impact the way we live.
Charlotte Screnock
June 1, 2022
2
min read
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Faithfulness matters most
Faithfulness is never abstract, it starts with a heart commitment and evolves into a life-changing force.
Tim Vickers
October 28, 2024
3
min read
Going Deeper
Work and burnout: where’s the balance
The system that gives esteem to engaged employees also creates anxiety only quelled through working more intensively. Perhaps we can bring more of the refreshing gospel of Christ to our workplaces.
Samuel Johns
February 9, 2022
7
min read
Testimony
My Faith Journey with the Cultural Influencers Cross-Current Group
Participating in the Cultural Influencers Cross Current is an absolutely unique experience. It raises a lot of questions that I never thought about and I talk about my beliefs a lot more naturally.
Shuk Ling Chan
February 9, 2022
4
min read
Going Deeper
Sharpening the Saw: consider Sabbath
An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 3: Consider Sabbath.
Benjamin Sager
January 28, 2022
5
min read
Going Deeper
Sharpening the Saw: Optimisation and Fragility
An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 2: Optimisation and Fragility. What is the “cult of efficiency” doing to our humanity?
Samuel Johns
January 28, 2022
5
min read
Going Deeper
Sharpening the Saw: The Best Path to Freedom?
An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 1: What are we aiming for when we optimise? Do we even count the costs? What does it mean to live a good life?
Adrian Petrice
January 3, 2022
7
min read
Book Reviews
The Burnout Society: Why so tired?
Being tired is not the problem; the problem is that the kind of tiredness that our society brews is one of exhaustion.
Adrian Petrice
September 2, 2022
4
min read
Quick Read
A Vocational Mandate for Work
At the intersection of professional excellence, cultural relevance, and their Christian faith, Cross-Current participants inhabit a liminal space of risk and opportunity.
Adrian Petrice
June 22, 2021
3
min read
Curated Content
A Vulnerable Transition
Many young adults face two major transitions between the ages of 18-26 – first the move from home to university and second the move from university to work.
June 22, 2021
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Here comes success! Joseph.
If we want to see what the Bible thinks success is, let’s begin here.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
4
min read
Going Deeper
On Working and Living from Home
As she worked from home for most of her working life, Cláudia shares her practical experience and advice on how to work from home well.
Cláudia Monteiro
June 22, 2021
11
min read
Saturday Night Live
Presentation by Dr Peter Saunders on Covid situation November 2020. Followed by a panel show with Ross Hendry, Mark Meynell and Lea Köves moderated by Claudia Moneiro. Touching on wellbeing, the new n
June 22, 2021
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Making Unemployment Work 2
Stripping away our source of income, or some false sense of security, never takes us out of the plans God has for us.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
Curated Content
Dealing with Anxiety. Recommended Resources.
In these times of extreme uncertainty, we’re all dealing with anxiety, one way or another. We identified a few useful resources which address the topic from a biblical perspective.
June 22, 2021
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Making Unemployment Work
We need to talk about unemployment. Not just here but in our communities and in our churches. We need to learn to lift the stigma from the subject and to learn how to help each other through it.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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Unemployment and Faith
Unemployment is one of the hardest seasons in anyone’s life. Nowadays, with unemployment rates peaking all over the world, what difference can we bring as Christians?
Edna Mercado
June 22, 2021
4
min read
Curated Content
​How can Academic Research Glorify God?
How, if at all, can one bring glory to God directly through academic work? God should be at the forefront of our thoughts and work.
June 22, 2021
6
min read
Quick Read
Loneliness is a Killer
Actively loving your neighbour is not only a social thing, it is also deeply spiritual.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
Video
Theology of Work Part 4 - After Eden
The final part of our short overview of the theology of work. After Eden, where does our work fit into God's plans?
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
17
min read
Video
Interview Iwan Russell-Jones
Iwan Russell-Jones on Christianity, the arts and imagination. Interviewed during the annual Cross-Current Professional Groups Conference in Berlin, November 2019.
Iwan Russell Jones
June 22, 2021
17
min read
Video
Theology of Work Part 3 - Responsibility
Part 3 in our overview of the theology of work - looking at Avodah and God's gift of responsibility.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
16
min read
Video
Theology of Work Part 2 - Creativity
Work is God's gift of creativity.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
12
min read
Video
Theology of Work Part 1 - Introduction
Introduction to a 4-part video series on the theology of work - designed to be used with groups.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
9
min read
Core Reading
Signposts to Jesus
Your workplace is a unique place where Jesus has placed you. A place where you sit and stand day-by-day side-by-side with people who know nothing about Jesus. A place to shine!
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
8
min read
Core Reading
God’s View of Work
To be distinctive, we need to see our work the way God sees it.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
4
min read
Testimony
A New City Group in Tirana
The Tirana City Group started in autumn 2018. Read what one of the participants had to say after the first meeting.
Rea Halilaj
June 22, 2021
2
min read
Book Reviews
Rescuing Ambition
Ambition is part of what makes us human. The Creator of all is glorious and interested in glory. How do we rightly rescue ambition, and rightly direct it?
Adrian Petrice
June 22, 2021
20
min read
Going Deeper
Wealth and Poverty
All wealth ultimately belongs to God – we are always stewards, never owners. The existence of poverty is the result of our individual and collective brokenness, not God’s failure to provide.
Andy Hood
June 22, 2021
15
min read
Going Deeper
Work and Wages
Humans have been made with a purpose which includes work. Human life is valuable and one way it can be valued is through anticipated labour (expected productivity).
June 22, 2021
4
min read
Quick Read
Mind Over Matter
It is not what a person does that determines if their work is sacred or secular, it is their attitude.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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Coping with Boredom
When our world lives for the weekend, how can we rethink work as something we do for our God - whatever we do?
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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Work – God’s Gift for Survival
Even when our work feels like the most boring and unrewarding thing, we can recognise it is still a gift from the Lord.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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Work – God’s Gift of Responsibility
Human capacity for responsibility (and destruction) sets us apart from all other earthly life forms.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
2
min read
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Made for Creation
Made in the image of the Creator - it has to mean something, doesn't it?
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
2
min read
Quick Read
Trust is Like the Air We Breathe
As Warren Buffett the American investor once said: “Trust is like the air we breathe - when it’s present nobody really notices; when it’s absent everybody notices.”
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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Trust is Like a Muscle
Trust is like a muscle - the more we exercise it the stronger it gets!
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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A Balancing Act
The Bible sees work as something given to us by the Lord from the dawn of creation. A gift which allows us to show something of our identity, to live with meaning and purpose, and to earn a living.
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
2
min read
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Trust is key
At a time when there are more Christians alive in the world than ever before, why is there also more corruption?
Tim Vickers
June 22, 2021
2
min read