by Rob Tribken | Oct 30, 2015 | Spiritual Practices
I ran across an article written in 2000 by psychologist Robert Emmons that is well worth considering (I wish I had seen it earlier). Emmons raises the possibility that spirituality might be considered a form of intelligence consisting of five components (I am quoting...
by Rob Tribken | Apr 22, 2015 | Spiritual Aspects of Leadership
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.” (Max De Pree: Leadership Is an Art, Page 11) ——— As many...
by Rob Tribken | Apr 12, 2015 | Markets, Enterprise, and Wellbeing
Underlying much of the “faith and work” movement and many of the books on the subject is the assumption that religious people want to connect their faith and their work. In a recent presentation to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,...
by Rob Tribken | Apr 11, 2015 | Markets, Enterprise, and Wellbeing, Role of the Church
Different spheres of life have different grammars. By this I mean that not only do we use different words in different spheres, but that the logical rules and structural relationships between the words can be quite different as well. This can create a problem when we...
by Rob Tribken | Apr 10, 2015 | Role of the Church
Workplace chaplaincy services are receiving increased attention and appear to be a growing phenomena. An article by Cheryl Hall in the Dallas Morning News (November 25, 2014) reports on the firm Marketplace Ministries, Inc., and its founder Gil Stricklin. Hall...
by Rob Tribken | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am writing this post on the Monday of Holy Week. While the post does not relate specifically to workplace faith and spirituality, you might nevertheless be interested in a series of daily Holy Week recorded meditations that a group of us have put...
by Rob Tribken | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recommended: The Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary will host a lecture by Lord Brian Griffiths, Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs International, on the relationship between the Christian faith and the global marketplace, on April 10 (7p.m.) in...
by Rob Tribken | Feb 5, 2015 | Spiritual Practices
One striking aspect of Charles Marsh’s new biography about Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the degree to which Bonhoeffer’s church seemed to disappear. For someone as committed to, and embedded within, the church as Bonhoeffer, this must have been a highly...
