Books on vocation, calling, work, and jobs. And we mean LOTS of books.
This post originally appeared at the blog Booknotes. As we were leading up to Labor Day weekend, I was thrilled to know that the High Calling blog offered resources for use during this season since it...
View ArticleCelebrating unsung heroes: more books for Labor Day
As we are heading into the Labor Day weekend, some of us will have some time off. Restaurant workers, preachers, many health care providers, law enforcement personnel, those who work in the media, and...
View ArticleLessons from the career of Joseph in Egypt: The Accidental Executive by Al...
In case you missed it, a few days ago on the Huffington Post, Romal Tune interviewed Al Erisman, whose great interviews from Ethix have been featured on our sister blog MISSION:WORK (here’s one with...
View ArticleThe Business of Faith: An Interview with Al Erisman
By Romal Tune, reprinted with permission. This interview originally appeared at the Huffington Post. For much of my career I’ve worked in the faith community but lately I’ve been asked by a few...
View ArticleThe Business of Faith: Part 2 of an interview with Al Erisman
Read the first part of Romal Tune’s interview with Al Erisman here. Reprinted with permission. This interview originally appeared at the Huffington Post. RT: In The Accidental Executive you share a lot...
View Article25 Books Top CEOs recommend you read
This list appeared at Inc a few days ago. Some of the entries may surprise you! Here are the top 5: 1. The Remains of the Day Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos lists Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of...
View ArticleThe way to abundant life: A short list of books on globalization, economics,...
This post originally appeared at Booknotes in September 2009. But these books are all just as good now as they were then! Earlier this week I did a pair of posts inspired by the important and much...
View ArticleDoes God care about economics? Money, Greed, and God by Jay Richards
Reprinted from the Center for Faith and Work, LeTourneau University Does God care about economics? Jay Richards, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and a Senior...
View ArticleLeading from behind: Servants and Fools by Arthur Boers
When I hear high powered leaders talking about all they accomplish (or get others to accomplish) I sometimes think of that old Emily Dickinson poem – I’m nobody! So I was struck when Dr. Curt...
View ArticleA few more books to make you smarter
We keep running into lists of unconventional business books (or unconventional lists of business books). Here are two that showed up yesterday: 20 Book Recommendations from Billionaire Charlie Munger...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Important Books to Expand Your Brain
…or so says author James Altucher here, for Medium. As with the list from Inc. we pointed you towards a few days ago, there are definitely some surprises! Altucher says: Here’s my top 10 list of...
View ArticleThe Virtues of Capitalism by Austin Hill and Scott Rae
Recommended: The Virtues of Capitalism A Review of The Virtues of Capitalism By Mikel Del Rosario In The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets, Austin Hill and Scott Rae examine...
View ArticleBest Books for Business: The Power of No
By Cheryl Smith; part of a series at TheHighCalling.org called “Best Books for Business.” Stay tuned for more! I currently have four books and a Kindle on my nightstand, and I’m pretty sure there’s at...
View ArticleThe 12 best business books of all time
…as determined by The Motley Fool writing for USA Today. How many of these have you read? Here are the top 2 under “self-improvement.” Check out the rest of the list! 1.How to Win Friends &...
View ArticleRedeeming law: books to integrate Christian calling and the legal profession
If you have seen our recent facebook updates or twitter posts you may know that we had a friend drive a large rented van to New Orleans (we flew down and back) in order to set up a large book display...
View ArticleNot work-life balance but abundant life: The Vulnerable Pastor by Mandy Smith
This post is part of a Patheos Book club roundtable on The Vulnerable Pastor. I approached this book with some trepidation. I went to seminary in the mid 1990s, when the terminology that was all the...
View ArticleTop 10 books on faith and work
Just stumbled on this list from our friends over at the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics, compiled by Hugh Whelchel, who is himself an author of a book on faith and work. Hugh says, In a...
View ArticleWork: What is it good for?
In this video interview Tim Keller discusses his new book “Every Good Endeavor” and how our faith should inform our work. For more information about the book, click here. (Reprinted from the Center for...
View ArticleBurning brakes and selling books: taking faith and work on the road
What an adventure we recently had, complete with burning brakes and selling books at three different off site venues. As you probably know, our bookstore is in a small town. We attend a medium size...
View ArticleBooks in brief: Tim Keller on the Psalms and Sven Birkert on the Internet
We know you like lists of books around here, and an interesting one showed up on The Gospel Coalition a few days ago. Not all the books are in the faith/work/discipleship/culture-shaping orbit we...
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