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Shundrawn A. Thomas’s\u00a0Discover Joy in Work: Transforming Your Occupation into your Vocation<\/em> is a new little hardback from IVP USA that is aimed squarely at every Christian who works. With the exception, perhaps, of children and those medically unable to work, that’s a pretty big market! I like to read books about work from different Christian perspectives, and this one caught my eye not least because it’s author is’president of a trillion-dollar global investment management business’. I don’t know many of those. For those worrying, Thomas doesn’t talk about that much – this is a book that I found resonated with me as mid-level, early career person.<\/p>\n Discover Joy in Work\u00a0<\/em>is a nice little hardback (unless you buy it digitally, I suppose!) divided into three parts: ‘Your Workplace’, ‘Your Work Ethic’ and ‘Your Work Life’. Thomas weaves a blend of personal story (including some failures, which is good), biblical reflection and good common sense. This is not a theology of work, per se, but rather a reminder of the Christian’s call to follow Jesus wherever they are.<\/p>\n Some of the seemingly practical observations he makes have stayed with me – impacting what I think about work:<\/p>\n The central message of the book relates to finding meaning (though not\u00a0ultimate<\/strong> meaning) in the work that you do. Thus, Thomas writes things like:<\/p>\n I really enjoyed this book. It is perhaps more conversational and less theological than some books I’ve read on the topic – but that makes it readable, digestible, and memorable. I think this could be a useful tool for pastors working through work with their congregations, as well as something for those in their late 20’s\/30’s to read. I can’t speak from experience, but I wonder if it might also be a good read for those entering the later stages of their ‘working lives’. Whoever, this is a helpful book on what most of us do for most of most days, and I’m really glad to have read it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If this review has got you interested, then I’ve reviewed\/read a few other books that would ‘work’ well alongside Discover Joy in Work<\/em>.<\/p>\n Shundrawn A. Thomas’s\u00a0Discover Joy in Work: Transforming Your Occupation into your Vocation is a new little hardback from IVP USA that is aimed squarely at every Christian who works. With the exception, perhaps, of children and those medically unable to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2,1049,390,73],"tags":[797,1070,292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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