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Work and worship: exploring the connections.
A Mixed Blessing
When he was still a struggling nobody seeking financial backers for a production of his play A Streetcar named Desire, the great American writer Tennessee Williams is said to have quipped, "The very rich have the most pathetic confidence in the efficacy of small sums!" He meant, of course, that those who don't need to work have only the vaguest understanding of the problems facing those who do. It is easy for persons of leisure (their material wants amply supplied) to compose beautiful essays praising works social importance, historical value and human meaningfulness. But work takes on another face entirely when one sees the bent backs of ...
- God and Gods
- Reference information from: -Ologies and -Isms January 1, 1986 700+ words
183. God and Gods See also 59. BUDDHISM ; 69. CATHOLICISM...absolute denial of the existence of God or any other gods. —atheist, n. —...adj. misotheism Rare. a hatred of gods or God. Mithraism an oriental mystery cult...
- God's refining love.(BIBLE STUDY)
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Berry, Malinda Elizabeth September 1, 2007 700+ words
...earth laid bare, healing balm, and land to which God holds the deed. Jeremiah was at work from 628 to 586 B.C.E., during which time...Jeremiah ... depicts the alienation of people from God, God's unceasing attempts to bring them back to...
- God, A Biography.
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Davis, Robert Gorham June 22, 1996 700+ words
...Miles describes the God of the Hebrew Bible as...A. C. Bradley, with God as Hamlet. An earlier...the Hebrew Bible as a work of art is that art requires...influence of neighboring gods on Israelite conceptions...influences are conflicts within God himself. For his biography...
- God's blessings in the flesh.(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Goetz, Ronald January 29, 1997 700+ words
...creation in self-imposed humility? God's self-limitation, God's "self-humiliation," as...that willingness and capacity of God which lights all the predicates...of the true Godhead. "False gods are all reflections of a false...
- God 101: back to school with Julian of Norwich.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Bondi, Roberta August 28, 2002 700+ words
...being encountered by the living God, rather than just thinking about God, or talking about God, or stating God's position with respect to various moral issues, your work will be in vain. I think Julian would go on to admonish us in something...
- GOD'S LOVE IS UNRELENTING: AN ALTERNATE VIEW
- Magazine article from: New Oxford Review Droddy, Vincent A January 1, 2009 700+ words
...pages of the NEW OXFORD REVIEW on the nature of God's love. Several pubHshed pieces (e.g., "Is God's Love Unconditional?" article by Carmelo...important point that our relationship with God depends on our remaining in a state of grace...
- God will protect people who are true to His word.(NATION)(THE CAPITAL PULPIT)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 6, 2003 700+ words
...Va. In Jeremiah 1, we are told that God has Jeremiah's life, soul, actions and ministry under his microscope. What will God do with such information? He will empower...the lips runs through these verses. But God told Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee In...
- God's folly & the weakness of wisdom.
- Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record Siverns, Ted March 1, 2000 700+ words
...Greeks. Even now, when surveys indicate the vast majority of people believe in God (or, at least, a god or gods), the cross is foolish to those who think of God as the unmoved mover or the supreme idea but not one who took on human form and...
