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Working life tests our character and the workplace presents us a great opportunity to live with integrity and let the hope we have is Christ shine and make a difference in everyday life: from how we treat others to how we work when no one sees us.

Fruitful

Being fruitful is a lifelong calling.
Charlotte Screnock
Jun 7, 2022
1
min read

Focused

It’s easy to lose focus when feeling overwhelmed with new challenges.
Charlotte Screnock
Jun 2, 2022
1
min read

Transitioning well into working life

The beginning of professional life is a time of challenge and a time of opportunity.
Charlotte Screnock
May 26, 2022
1
min read

Rooted

Transition explores the need to continually put our trust in the Lord, and how that trust will impact the way we live.
Charlotte Screnock
May 30, 2022
2
min read

Faithfulness matters most

Faithfulness is never abstract, it starts with a heart commitment and evolves into a life-changing force.
Tim Vickers
Feb 16, 2022
3
min read

Work and burnout: where’s the balance

The system that gives esteem to engaged employees also creates anxiety only quelled through working more intensively. Perhaps we can bring more of the refreshing gospel of Christ to our workplaces.
Samuel Johns
Jan 28, 2022
7
min read

False Paradigms of Success

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with money, authority, reputation or experience. But none of them should be the foundation on which we build our life, our identity or our significance.
Tim Vickers
Jan 19, 2022
3
min read

My Faith Journey with the Cultural Influencers Cross-Current Group

Participating in the Cultural Influencers Cross Current is an absolutely unique experience. It raises a lot of questions that I never thought about and I talk about my beliefs a lot more naturally.
Shuk Ling Chan
Feb 8, 2022
4
min read

A Vocational Mandate for Work

At the intersection of professional excellence, cultural relevance, and their Christian faith, Cross-Current participants inhabit a liminal space of risk and opportunity.
Adrian Petrice
May 28, 2021
3
min read

Reflections on the “infodemic” 

Mathias Lauter shares a few thoughts from our last Media and Journalism Cross-Current group meeting.
May 26, 2021
2
min read

A Vulnerable Transition

Many young adults face two major transitions between the ages of 18-26 – first the move from home to university and second the move from university to work.
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The Primacy of Integrity

We observe that integrity is a 'cross-over virtue', valued both in private and professional life. Our research shows this virtue is often an aspirational one in the lives of young Christians.
Samuel Johns
May 14, 2021
2
min read

On Working and Living from Home

As she worked from home for most of her working life, Cláudia shares her practical experience and advice on how to work from home well.
Cláudia Monteiro
Dec 18, 2020
11
min read

Making Unemployment Work 2

Stripping away our source of income, or some false sense of security, never takes us out of the plans God has for us.
Tim Vickers
Oct 27, 2020
3
min read

Making Unemployment Work

We need to talk about unemployment. Not just here but in our communities and in our churches. We need to learn to lift the stigma from the subject and to learn how to help each other through it.
Tim Vickers
Sep 17, 2020
3
min read

Unemployment and Faith

Unemployment is one of the hardest seasons in anyone’s life. Nowadays, with unemployment rates peaking all over the world, what difference can we bring as Christians?
Edna Mercado
Aug 18, 2020
4
min read

Loneliness is a Killer

Actively loving your neighbour is not only a social thing, it is also deeply spiritual.
Tim Vickers
Jun 12, 2020
3
min read

God’s View of Work

To be distinctive, we need to see our work the way God sees it.
Tim Vickers
Jun 9, 2020
4
min read

Business and Corruption

Corruption is a “significant obstacle” to doing business in Ukraine, according to the OECD. Being honest at work is a daily battle for Vera who works as a finance and administration manager in Kyiv.
Vera Diukanova
Jan 1, 2019
6
min read

A New City Group in Tirana

The Tirana City Group started in autumn 2018. Read what one of the participants had to say after the first meeting.
Rea Halilaj
Dec 1, 2018
2
min read

Don’t Waste Your Life

You belong to God: He made you and he bought you through the cross. That means your life is not your own. It is God’s, and this should form the basis for finding the meaning and purpose for your life.
Miriam Owen
Mar 2, 2020
15
min read

Rescuing Ambition

Ambition is part of what makes us human. The Creator of all is glorious and interested in glory. How do we rightly rescue ambition, and rightly direct it?
Adrian Petrice
Jul 26, 2019
20
min read

Counterfeit Gods

Keller cuts through our dependence on the glittering false idols of money, sex and power to uncover the path towards trust in the real ultimate - God.
Miriam Owen
Feb 26, 2019
13
min read

Mind Over Matter

It is not what a person does that determines if their work is sacred or secular, it is their attitude.
Tim Vickers
Mar 13, 2019
3
min read

Coping with Boredom

When our world lives for the weekend, how can we rethink work as something we do for our God - whatever we do?
Tim Vickers
Feb 6, 2019
3
min read

Work – God’s Gift for Survival

Even when our work feels like the most boring and unrewarding thing, we can recognise it is still a gift from the Lord.
Tim Vickers
Jan 15, 2019
3
min read

Work – God’s Gift of Responsibility

Human capacity for responsibility (and destruction) sets us apart from all other earthly life forms.
Tim Vickers
Dec 5, 2018
2
min read

Made for Creation

Made in the image of the Creator - it has to mean something, doesn't it?
Tim Vickers
Nov 7, 2018
2
min read

A Balancing Act

The Bible sees work as something given to us by the Lord from the dawn of creation. A gift which allows us to show something of our identity, to live with meaning and purpose, and to earn a living.
Tim Vickers
Oct 11, 2018
2
min read

Trust is key

At a time when there are more Christians alive in the world than ever before, why is there also more corruption?
Tim Vickers
Apr 9, 2019
2
min read
Cross-Current is a mentoring programme for young Christian professionals led by IFES Graduate Impact. Find out more about the work of IFES globally here.
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