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Ergasia
by Brendan E Byrne
A podcast exploring the world of work and economics from the standpoint of Christian faith an theology.
Episodes
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Episode 30 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part XI - Introducing The Issues
In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed Anybody: How The Idolisation of Work Sustains This Deadly Lie by John Bottomley by going back to the beginning and exploring the origins of Bottomley's ministry to the world of work. How did Bottomley come…
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Episode 29 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part X: God‘s Governance in the Midst of Tough Circumstances
When our eyes are opened to the ways in which the idol of hard work disguises its complicity in the deaths of people sacrificed to its demands; and when we see the impact which being forgotten or victimised by the systems which are supposed to protect vulnerable workers or support their bereaved...
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Episode 28 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IXb: Work and Life Renewed – Prophetic Dreaming, Integrating Experience and Scripture
In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our two-part examination of the ways in which the experience of those who have been harmed by modernity's construction of work and economy can be integrated with the Scriptural witness of God's love for humanity and call to the Church to engage in a…
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Episode 27 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IXa: Work and Life Renewed – Prophetic Dreaming, Integrating Experience and Scripture
If the prophetic imagination is evoked by the process of deep listening, how can the wisdom gained by this listening result in the integration of the experience of work-related suffering with the witness of Scripture? How does Scripture continue to speak into modernity's construction of work and...
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Episode 26 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VIII: Work and Life Renewed - Deep Listening
After a long delay, Ergasia is back - and in this episode, we continue our exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed AnyBody: How The Idolisation of Work Sustains This Deadly Lie, by John Bottomley, published by Morning Star Publishing in 2015. In particular we will begin the examination of...
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Episode 25 – Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VII: Prophetic Resistance to the Forgetting of Injustice
How is the silencing of the justice claims of those harmed by modernity's construction of work and economy linked to a widespread culture of forgetting injustice? How is this culture linked to the injustice perpetrated by colonial society against indigenous Australians? How is the church…
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Episode 24 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VI: The Economic Factors In Work-Related Death, Grief, and Trauma..
In today's episode of Ergasia, we look at the economic factors operating within work-related trauma, injury, and death. Who bears the economic cost when workers are injured or killed at work? How does the adversarial legal system within which workers' compensation systems are enmeshed affect...
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Episode 23 – Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part V: The Death and Transformation of the Theologies of Hospitality and Pastoral Care
In today’s episode, we will look at the underlying principles that often govern the church’s approach to pastoral care, and how the often congregation-centric assumptions underlying these principles blind the church to it's calling to both the ministry of God's governance in the world of work…
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Episode 22 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IV: Creating Victims, Silencing Grief After Work Related Trauma
In this episode of Ergasia, we continue the exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed Anyone: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie by John Bottomley, published by Morning Star Publishing in 2015. How do modernity's beliefs about work silence the victims of work related harm?...
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Episode 21 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part III: The Foundation of Prophetic Ministry, Listening with a Pastoral Heart
In this episode of Ergasia, we continue the exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed Anyone: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie by John Bottomley, published by Morning Star Publishing in 2015. What is the starting point of any prophetic ministry? How does our experience of...
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Episode 20 – Hard Work Never Killed Anyone, Part II: Idolatry’s Bitter Fruit, Silencing Suffering and Injustice
In this episode of Ergasia, we continue the exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed Anyone: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie by John Bottomley, published by Morning Star Publishing in 2015. What is the true relationship between work and humanity? What are the hidden...
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Episode 19 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part I: Subduing Death, Modernity‘s Heroic Intent
In this episode of Ergasia, we begin an exploration of the book Hard Work Never Killed Anybody: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie, by John Bottomley, published by Morning Star Publishing in 2015. What are the beliefs that underpin modernity's construction of work and economy?…
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Ergasia Special Episode No.3: A Statement of Intent
In this episode of Ergasia Special, your host, Brendan Byrne, sets out his vision for the podcast as he continues to explore the intersection of faith and work. What are the essential elements which a theology of work must contain in order to be properly Christian? What are the traps and pitfalls...
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Episode 18 - The Dream Betrayed, Part VI: The Church As Community of Justice
In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our exploration of the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by Lutheran scholar Karen L Bloomquist. Having taken us through the dilemma faced by the working class under the oppressive reign of neoliberalism, and having likewise...
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Episode 17 - The Dream Betrayed Part V: Redeeming Working Class Reality
In this episode of Ergasia we continue our exploration of the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by Lutheran scholar Karen L Bloomquist. In this episode, Bloomquist considers the question of how the Church can proclaim the Gospel of God's redemption in way that…
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Episode 16: The Dream Betrayed, Part IV: The Dominance of Sin
In this episode of Ergasia, we continue our exploration of the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by Karen L Bloomquist, published by Fortress Press. Bloomquist asks: what are the ways in which sin manifests itself in the structures of dominance and control that...
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Ergasia Special Episode No.2 - Conversation With A Quaker, Part 3
In this episode of Ergasia Special, your host Brendan Byrne concludes his conversation with trade unionist Chris Hughes. Together, they explore how the privatisation of faith and the withdrawal of the church from the world of work might be reversed in order to both articulate the Good News of the...
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Ergasia Special Episode No.2 - Conversation With A Quaker, Part 2
In this second installment of Ergasia Special Episode No.2, the host of Ergasia, Brendan Byrne, continues his conversation with Australian trade unionist Chris Hughes. How does the relationship between religious faith and organised labour operate? Where are its synergies and frictions? And what…
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Ergasia Special Episode No.2 - Conversation With A Quaker, Part 1
In this Ergasia Special episode, your host, Brendan Byrne, speaks with an Australian trade unionist from a Quaker background about faith, work, and how being a Christian and a labour activist do - and sometimes don't - go together.
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Episode 15 - The Dream Betrayed, Part III: Theological Perspectives For Addressing Class Realities
In this epsode of Ergasia, we continue our exploration of the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by Karen L Bloomquist (Fortress Press, 1990). What are the theological perspectives that have attempted to address the realities of modernity and the dilemma of the...
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Ergasia Digest #7 - 23.4.18
In this week's episode: the difficulty of accessing parental leave; artists asked to work for free; the "lost" generation of those born after 1973; the push to criminalise "wage theft"; and the fallout from the Financial Services Royal Commission. What are the theological implications of these...
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Episode 14 - The Dream Betrayed, Part II: Religion and the Realities of Class
In this epsode of Ergasia, we continue our exploration of the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by Karen L Bloomquist (Fortress Press). What are the ways in which the Church deepens the wounds of classism as they are inflicted by the failed dream of neoliberalism?...
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Ergasia Digest #6 - 18.3.18
In this edition of Ergasia Digest, we examine ongoing moves in the US to destroy the ability of labour unions to collectively bargain, the consequences of so-called "crypto-colonialism", the state of Australian workplace culture, and what happens when unions and governments support workplace...
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Ergasia Special Episode No.1 - Work As Worship Retreat: A Conference Review, Part 2
In this second part of the first ever Ergasia Special Episode, your host Brendan Byrne continues his review of the Work As Worship Retreat and concludes with his thoughts on the event as a whole - including the urgent message for the so-called "mainstream church" implicit in this event.
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Ergasia Special Episode No.1 - Work As Worship Retreat: A Conference Review, Part 1
Announcing the first ever Ergasia Special Episode! A new initiative of the Ergasia podcast, bringing you ocassional interviews, events, and other matters relevant to the interconnection between faith and work that are not covered in either Ergasia or Ergasia Digest. For this first ever Ergasia...
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Ergasia Digest #5 - 4.3.18
Welcome to Ergasia Digest #5. In this episode, we examine the effect of the Trump administration's corporate tax cuts, reveal the potential impact of proposed labour reforms in Japan, and note the ongoing efforts by governments in the Asia-Pacific region to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership.…
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Ergasia Digest #4 - 24.2.18
Welcome to Ergasia Digest #4, the first roundup of news from the world of work, faith, theology, and economics for 2018. This week: what does a theology of work say about ideological blindness, and the responsibility of Christians when confronted by political and social policies that impact on…
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Episode 13 - The Dream Betrayed, Part I: The Dilemma Of The Working Class
In this episode of Ergasia, we begin an examination of the relationship between the Church and the working class through the book The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class by the Lutheran pastor and theologian, Karen L Bloomquist. Bloomquist begins by identifying the central...
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Ergasia Digest #3 - 24.12.17
Welcome to Ergasia Digest #3, a roundup of the news from the world of faith, work, economics and theology. This week: what happens when corporations and unions, or corporations and governments, conspire to promote their own self-interest instead of the interest of the wider community; and how…
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Ergasia Digest #2 - 21.12.17
Welcome to Ergasia Digest #2, a roundup of the news from the world of faith, work, economics and theology. This week: the initial impacts of cutting penalty rates on employment opportunity and economic activity; the correlation (if any) between employment vacancies, employment rates, and wages...
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Ergasia Digest #1 - 9.12.17
Welcome to Ergasia Digest #1 - a weekly round-up of news from the world of faith, work, theology, and economics. This is a new initiative of the Ergasia podcast, bringing real news stories into contact with theological reflection, posing questions from the perspective of a Christian theology of...
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Episode 12 - Dead Man Working, Part V: A (Further) Theological Reflection
In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our exploration of Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming (Zero Books, 2012). Does Cederstrom and Fleming's idea of the child as the helpless but ultimate subversive of the zombie apocalypse of post-industrial capitalism have merit? What is…
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Episode 11 - Dead Man Working, Part IV: A Theological Reflection
In this episode, the host of Ergasia, Brendan Byrne, offers a theological reflection on the book Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming (Zero Books, 2012). In particular, he focuses on Cederstrom and Fleming's characterisation of the world of post-industrial work as a "land of the...
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Episode 10 - Dead Man Working, Part III: Exit Strategies
In this episode, we conclude our exploration of the book Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming (Zero Books, 2012) with an examination of the ways and means that people use to escape the life-consuming tyranny of corporatised labour - strategies that range from the absurd to the...
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Episode 9 - Dead Man Working, Part II: The Girlfriend Effect
In this episode, we continue our exploration of some of the secular critiques of corporatised work as articulated in the book Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming. In particular, we examine the emergence of "emotional labour" and the phenomenon of the "girlfriend effect" to which...
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Episode 8 - Dead Man Working, Part I: The World of the Living Dead
In this episode, we begin a new series exploring some contemporary critiques of work based on the book Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming. Cederstrom and Fleming describe the world of corporatised work as the "land of the living dead" in which the motifs and symbols of…
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Episode 7 - What Is Work? Part V
In this episode, we conclude our investigation of the question What Is Work? by reviewing the theologians whose work we've been examining in the last three episodes, by drawing some conclusions of our own, and proposing what a Christian definition of work might look like.
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Episode 6 - What Is Work? Part IV
In this episode, we continue our exploration of the question What Is Work? by examing the argument for the "threefold nature of work" set out by the theologian Darrell Cosden in his book A Theology of Work. What does Cosden's conception of the "ontological character" of work tell us about work...
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Episode 5 - What Is Work? Part III
In this episode, we continue our exploration of the question What Is Work? by examining the concept of work as "obligation", as proposed by the theologian David H Jensen in his book Responsive Labor. We unpack Jensen's conception of obligation, examine its similarities and departures from Volf's...
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Episode 4 - What Is Work? Part II
In this episode, we continue our exploration of the question What Is Work? by examining the definition of work articulated by the theologian Miroslav Volf in his book Work In The Spirit. We'll examine the characteristics which Volf assigns to work, and debate the extent to which Volf' definition...
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Episode 3 - What is Work? Part I
In this episode, we begin our exploration of the question What is Work? Along the way, we'll discover it's not as straight-forward a question as we might imagine, and that many caveats and complexities make finding an answer a tricky business indeed! References Bottomley, John Hard Work Never...
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Episode 2 - The Theology of Work
In this episode we will explore the necessity for the Church to develop a systematic theology of work, using as our lens an encounter between Jesus and a crippled woman as told in The Gospel According to Luke. References Bloomquist, Karen L. The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working...
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Episode 1 - Welcome to Ergasia
In this introductory episode, we learn the meaning of Ergasia, unpack some of the basic motivations behind this podcast, and sketch an outline of future episodes.
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A podcast exploring the world of work and economics from the standpoint of Christian faith an theology.
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Brendan E Byrne
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