R15 The World at Work Weekend

Welcome to the R15 The World at Work Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to the sessions covered in R15 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute.

What is this Weekend all about?

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• Full module description for R15
• Sample Ordinands R15 Programme
• Residential Timetable for dates of the weekend
• Booklists for the weekend
• Handouts for the weekend

Books

• Dow G A Christian Understanding of Daily Work Cambridge Grove Books 1994
• Goldingay et al God at Work Parts 1 & 2 Cambridge Grove Books 1995
• Ryken L Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective London IVP 1989
• Schumacher C God in Work London Lion 1998

R15 The World at Work Web Resources

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Website supporting Christians in Secular Work

Chrism

CHRISM is an association for all Christians who see their secular employment as a primary field of Christian ministry and for those who would support and encourage that vision.

London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

LICC aims to equip Christians to engage biblically and relevantly with the issues they face, including Work, Capitalism, Youth Culture, Media and Communication. Many of its papers will be used during the weekend.

Getting God 2 work

This website exists to provide Christians in the UK workplace with every possible resource to help them be Godly at work by: Facilitating Christian fellowship, Assisting with workplace evangelism,and Equipping Christians with biblical teaching on contemporary workplace issues.

Christians at Work

Christians at Work is helping to mobilise Christians to live out their faith in the world of work: Workplace groups are being established and supported, Individuals are being encouraged, Local churches are being challenged, and Resources are being made available

Faith in the Workplace - Christianity Today (American)

Christianity Today is a website for the conservative American magazine Christianity Today. It has a section of its website devoted to work issues./

Walking Wounded Net

A web page with one Christian's advice on dealing with stress, bullying and other workplace problems

Christian Ethics in the Workplace

The Faith and Work Project Ridley Hall

We aim to research and to promote practical approaches to the application of Christian ethics within business and professional life. On the one hand these must be morally and spiritually challenging. They must also be meaningful, in both language and style, to people wrestling from day to day with the down-to-earth realities of the business world with all its uncertainties and dilemmas.

Theologies of Work

Unemployment

The Walking Wounded Net

Some brief advice for Christians who find themselves unemployed - one Christian's perspective.

Luis Palau on Unemployment

Luis Palau is an international evangelist originally from Latin America, he speaks to the conservative Christianity Toay website.

Christian Theology and Economics

Zadok Papers

A reading guide on Christianity and economics with sections on issues such as work and unemployment

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A sample R15 The World at Work Weekend Programme

Preparation

Read the following articles from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity:
Slave New World by Mark Greene
Time Out - Disengaging with our Culture by Mark Greene

Complete the following Work Audit(.rtf 17Kb):

Work Audit

1. Since leaving full time education list the 'work' that you have been involved with.
2. List any periods of unemployment
3. What percentage of your life at present is given to 'work' and how much to 'leisure'? Was the proportion different before you started WEMTC? (Is WEMTC work? Is being involved in the Church work?)
4. For each 'job' on your work list and each period of unemployment consider how, at the time, you related that 'job' to God, the Kingdom of God and being a Christian. Were you aware of God in it?
5. Can you bring an example from your 'work' where there has been a conflict between your Christian principles and those of the 'work' environment?
6. Thinking of the 'work' you do at present where is justice denied and where is it affirmed?

1. Does your church preach or have studies on 'work' or offer people help with being a Christian at work? In what ways?
2. What categories of work does your church recognise and what gets passed over? How does this relate to the 'work' the members of the congregation are involved with?
3. In the different 'jobs' on your worklist/ periods of unemployment how often did you feel adequately supported by the church to be a Christian in that place?

1. If you were to create a theology of 'work' what resources (bible, tradition, secular wisdom) would your draw on?
2. How would you fit unemployment into that theology?

Programme

Saturday
8:00        Worship
8:30        Breakfast
9:15        Session 2 A Theology of Work
Theological Reflection on work using biblical and Christian Tradition resources
15:45      Coffee
11:15      Session 3 Current Issues in Work
Engagement with current issues such as Life/Work balance, unemplyment etc.
1:00        Lunch
2:30        Free
4:00         Tea
4:15        Session 4 Christians in the Workplace
How can the Church better support Christians in the workplace
5:45        Break
6:00        Worship
6:30        Dinner
7:30        Session 5 Social Placement Revisited
Exploring ideas that are practical, and putting the final pieces into place.

Sunday
8:30         Breakfast
9:15        WEMTC Notices
9:30        Liturgy and Sacraments
11:00      Coffee
11:30      Eucharist
1:00        Lunch

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Content summary

• The aims and purpose of the Social Placement and how to establish a placement
• Theologies of Work and leisure
• Contemporary secular issues surrounding work (e.g. unemployment, retirement, ethics in the workplace) and theological perspectives on them relevant to the student body

Learning outcomes

a) Knowledge and Understanding

• Have a provisional idea of the place and nature of their practical Social Placement.
• Be able to critique various theologies of work and leisure
• Understand some current secular issues from a variety of different work environments

b) Skills

• Have reflected on the areas of society in which they feel afraid or uncomfortable and have gained confidence to face these areas.
• Have reflected on their own experience of work and being a Christian in the work place
• Be able to enter informed theological discussion on some contemporary issues relating to work and the workplace
• Be able to value and foster a congregation's experience of work, unemployment and its relationship to faith

Teaching and learning

Assessment

Indicative resources

• Dow G A Christian Understanding of Daily Work Cambridge Grove Books 1994
• Goldingay et al God at Work Parts 1 & 2 Cambridge Grove Books 1995
• Ryken L Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective London IVP 1989
• Schumacher C God in Work London Lion 1998

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