Zadok Perspectives Issue 90

How not to be Ruth-less at work or Grace at work - a sermon on Ruth 2 by Gordon Preece

God@Work by Miroslav Volf

A Fair Go on wages? an interview with Ian Harper by Gordon Preece

Ministry in the marketplace: reflections on radical workplace change by Alan Matheson

Water: a crisis of mangement by Peter Crabb

Industrial relations & restorative justice by Neil Holm

Paul: fresh perspectives & scripture and the authority of God.
Review by Mick Pope

God on Monday: Reflections on Christians @ Work
Review by Chris White

From under a leaky roof - Afghan refugees in Australia
Review by Emily Ackland

The New Believers: Re-imaging God
Review by Bill Stewart

Callings: Twenty centuries of Christian wisdom on vocation
Review by Gordon Preece

Kayang & Me / Brotherboys: the story of Jim & Phillip Krakouer / Someone else's country / The Broken Shore
Review by Stephen Hall

S144 Living Christianly in a world of technology (part 1)
By Ian Barn
Autumn 2006
The author outlines a way of thinking critically about our technologically shaped lives. He suggests that everyday practices of a technologically intensive workd teach us to believe that real freedom and fulfilment is to be found through increasingly instrumental control over our environment. Our challenge is to live in a way that is truly oriented in praise and thanksgiving to God, our Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer of the gospel.

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S145 The Simple Life? Affluent-culture Christians and a biblical and systematic reflection on the theology of wealth.
By Jonathan Wei-Han Kuan
Autumn 2006
What is the simple life? What level of material living is appropriate for affluent-culture Australian Christians today? What does the bible say about the presence and persistence of economic inequality and what is the proper godly response to either povery orto riches? The author gives and overview of Craig Bloomberg's Neither Poverty nor Richies and John Schneider's The Good of Affluence. He calls for sustained reflection and action on how to be good stewards, how to generate and employ wealth in the service of the kingdom.