Resources

Here are a few of my favorite things (no offense, Julie Andrews) on faith, work and culture. I’ve broken them down into categories: Periodicals, Articles, Blogs, Church Ministries, University Programs, Independent Organizations, Faith and Work Ministries, and Books.

Periodicals

• Christianity Today: This Is Our City
• Comment Magazine
• First Things
• Books and Culture: A Christian Review
• Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion
• Second Nature (Technology and New Media)

Articles

• “Why Work?” by Dorothy Sayers
• “The Sad Secular Monks,” by Leah Libresco
• “The Business of Business,” by Dallas Willard

Blogs

• The Gospel Coalition: Faith and Work Blog
• Fors Clavigera
• The Avodah Institute’s Faith and Work Blog
• Call and Response

Church Ministries

• Center for Faith and Work – Redeemer Presbyterian Church
• Christ Community Church in Leawood, Kansas

University Programs and Institutes

• Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative
• Yale Center for Faith and Culture
• The Wabash Center
• The Max De Pree Center for Leadership
• Center for Practical Theology: Boston University

Independent Organizations

• The Veritas Forum
• Trinity Forum
• Q Ideas
• Centre for Public Christianity
• Washington Institute:Connecting Faith, Vocation and Culture
• The High Calling
• Center for City Renewal

Books

Culture

• The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, by Lesslie Newbigin
• To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, by James Davison Hunter
• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch
• Christianity and Culture, by T.S. Eliot
• Desiring the Kingdom, by James K.A. Smith
• Living in God’s Two Kingdoms, by David Van Drunen
• Letters and Papers from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr
• Lectures on Calvinism, by Abraham Kuyper
• The God Who Is There, by Francis Schaeffer

Calling

• The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, by Os Guiness
• Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation, edited by William Placher
• God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life, by Gene Edward Veith
• What Is Vocation?, by Stephen Nichols

Faith and Work

• The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy Sayers
• Creed or Chaos?, by Dorothy Sayers
• Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, by Timothy Keller
• Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good, by Amy Sherman
• Work Matters, by Tom Nelson
• Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God, by Michael Wittmer
• Work: The Meaning of Your Life, by Lester DeKoster
• Work Matters: Lessons From Scripture, by R. Paul Stevens
• Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, by Ben Witherington III
• Working, by Studs Terkel [Although this book isn't explicitly Christian, it's a profound work on the lived experience of work in the 20th century.]

Theology

• Laborem Exercens: On Human Work, by Pope John Paul II
• Creation Regained, by Al Wolters
• Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work, by Miroslav Volf
• When the Kings Come Marching In, by Richard Mouw

Politics

• The City of God, by St. Augustine
• The Prophetic Imagination, by Walter Brueggemann
• Generous Justice, by Timothy Keller
• The Rise of Christianity, by Rodney Stark
• The Other Side of 1984, by Lesslie Newbigin [This book only deals with politics briefly]
• A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr., by Martin Luther King Jr.

Economy

• The Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age, by Samuel Gregg
• Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society, by Bob Goudzwaard

Business

• The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace, by John C. Medaille
• Business as Calling, By Michael Novak
• Why Business Matters to God, by Jeff Van Duzer

Education

• Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning, by Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans
• [My friend Christopher Benson has put together the best bibliography on Christianity and education I've ever seen. Check it out.]

Art

• Art for God’s Sake: A Call To Recover the Arts, by Phillip Ryken
• Art and the Bible, by Francis Schaeffer
• For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts, by W. David O. Taylor
• Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture, by Makoto Fujimara
• Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, by Madeleine L’Engle

Technology

• Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry, by Albert Borgmann
• Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology, by Albert Borgmann
• The Technological Society, by Jacque Ellul
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, by Neil Postman