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Taking Your Soul to Work<br />
Overcoming the Nine Deadly Sins of the Workplace<br />
R. Paul Stevens and Alvin Ung<br />
Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson<br />
Shows how our everyday work can be a tremendous catalyst for spiritual growth<br />
Instead of regarding work as an intrusion upon the<br />
spiritual life, R. Paul Stevens and Alvin Ung view the<br />
workplace as a positive arena for personal spiritual<br />
growth — and here they show us how that can be so<br />
in very practical ways.<br />
Taking Your Soul to Work examines the nine deadly sins<br />
of the workplace (“soul-sapping struggles at work”),<br />
the ninefold fruit of the Spirit that can meet our<br />
workplace needs, and the nine positive outcomes of<br />
integrating spirituality and work. Tapping into the<br />
wisdom of great spiritual writers over the past two<br />
millennia and drawing on their own experience,<br />
Stevens and Ung discuss real-life dilemmas and offer<br />
practical guidance for growing spiritually as we engage<br />
in the realities of work in the twenty-first century.<br />
Brief chapters — each rounded out with an action<br />
plan or a case study plus suggested exercises — make<br />
this book well suited to small-group study.<br />
Key selling points<br />
• Dynamic interpersonal and intercultural approach<br />
• Addresses real-life issues faced today by people<br />
in fast-paced, technological workplaces<br />
• Ideal for study and discussion groups<br />
R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace<br />
theology and spirituality at Regent College in Vancouver<br />
and adjunct professor at Bakke Graduate University<br />
in Seattle and at Biblical Graduate School of Theology<br />
in Singapore. As a “nonretiree,” he believes that work is<br />
a lifelong calling.<br />
Alvin Ung is a Fellow at Khazanah Nasional, the national investment agency of Malaysia,<br />
where he is currently writing a book on the mindsets of breakthrough leaders.<br />
Christian Living<br />
October / 978-0-8028-6559-5<br />
5½″ × 8½″ paperback<br />
208 pages / $14.99 [£10.99]<br />
Of related interest<br />
Doing God’s Business:<br />
Meaning and Motivation<br />
for the Marketplace<br />
R. Paul Stevens<br />
978-0-8028-3398-3<br />
The Other Six Days:<br />
Vocation, Work, and<br />
Ministry in Biblical<br />
Perspective<br />
R. Paul Stevens<br />
978-0-8028-4800-0<br />
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