Faith and Formation Modernity, Burnout and the Search for Hope
You navigate a world organised around endless production, optimisation, and performance. But you feel the gap between these systems and your deepest values — your need for rest, your care for creation and your faith. Modernity, Burnout and the Search for Hope is a six-episode class with Marianne Thieme, grounded in Scripture, built for practice. In this class, you will identify one assumption the world treats as inevitable and choose one small action each week that points towards a different way of living.
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The premise
What you'll practice
Name your deepest concern
Write down one issue or injustice that has shaped you, and decide how you might express compassion or bring justice there in one small way.
Identify invisible assumptions
Notice where endless production, optimisation, and performance are treated as inevitable — at work, in your consumption, in how you measure worth.
Keep Sabbath as resistance
Set apart one day to step outside the cycle of production, and ask how your church community might share responsibility for one another.
Choose countercultural action
Select one small action that points toward God's promised future, whether caring for creation, choosing peace over conflict, or giving generously.
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The Faithful Steward
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Meet Your Instructor/Class Overview
- Class Introduction
- Episode 1 - Breaking the Chains: Freedom in God's design - Part 1
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The Faithful Steward
- Episode 1 - Breaking the Chains: Freedom in God's design - Part 2
- Episode 2 - The Heart of Prosperity: The battlefield is the mind
- Episode 3 - The Parable of the Minas: Faith must move
- Episode 4 - Prosperity With Purpose: Prosperity needs purpose
- Episode 5 - Egypt, Desert, Canaan: Stages are normal
- Episode 6 - Stewardship and Freedom: Stewardship is the endgame
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Marianne Thieme
Marianne Thieme is a Dutch lawyer, theologian, and political activist who founded the Party for the Animals in 2002 — the first political party of its kind globally, now represented in parliaments across more than twenty countries. She has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of justice, creation care, and faith, speaking internationally on how systems shape our choices and how biblical wisdom offers different ways of living. She became a Seventh-day Adventist as an adult, recognizing in Sabbath theology and plant-based living a prophetic invitation to refuse the logic of endless extraction.
Ready to search for hope?
Hope is not optimism or wishful thinking. It is a practice that begins with one small choice. Start this week.
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