by Rob Tribken | Feb 3, 2023 | Role of the Church
I believe there is a huge opportunity for churches to minister to people in their work lives. Many of us strongly desire to find deeper purpose and meaning in our work, and our faith and spirituality can help us in this quest. At the same time, when people face...
by Rob Tribken | Mar 29, 2019 | Role of the Church, Spiritual Practices
A powerful revival occurred in North America in 1857 and 1858. Sometimes known as the “Businessmen’s Revival” by its contemporaries, a distinctive aspect of this revival was the extraordinary popularity of well-publicized noon prayer meetings led by business people....
by Rob Tribken | Jun 22, 2017 | Role of the Church, Spiritual Practices
Writing in the Harvard Business Review Online (The Busier You Are, the More You Need Silence), Justin Talbot-Zorn and Leigh Marz lay out the arguments for why busy people need more quiet time. According to the authors, research shows that “taking the time for...
by Rob Tribken | Nov 10, 2016 | Role of the Church
In her “Paul Henley Furfey” lecture at the annual Association for the Sociology of Religion meeting, Nancy Ammerman offered ideas about how sociologists might find religion in daily life, including the workplace. Defining “Lived Religion” Ammerman’s...
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 | Oct 18, 2014 | Role of the Church
Baylor University sociologists Jerry Park, Jenna Rogers, Mitchell Neubert, and Kevin Dougherty released a new study looking at the role of congregations in encouraging healthy work attitudes. Their study uses data collected from 1022 respondents in Baylor’s...
