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November 2018

November 26, 2018

How to Make Your Job So Much More Than Just a Job

This morning I’m sitting in a Holiday Inn Express in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Why I Don’t Like Work-Life Balance Either

In my last blog post, I noted and commented on Jeff Bezos's dislike of the...

May 12, 2018

Jeff Bezos Cares About Work and Home, But Not Work-Life Balance

In a recent interview published in Business Insider, Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, holds forth on the...

April 2018

April 21, 2018

Work, Justice, and Rest – A Biblical Basis

In a recent blog post, I reflected on an effort by an official in New...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

Beyond Sexual Harassment: Dignity and the Influence of Practice

I believe that if we foster communities in which all people are accorded true dignity,...

December 18, 2017

Beyond Sexual Harassment: Dignity

Beyond the pressing issues associated sexual harassment, how can we foster communities in which all...

December 16, 2017

How Work Can Make a Difference in Your Faith: A Striking Example

God is so good to give us our daily work as opportunities to form us...

December 14, 2017

Where is God When I Hate My Job?

Have you ever hated your job? Even if you have a great job, one you...

December 12, 2017

Is It Possible to Experience God’s Peace When Your Work Is Making You Crazy?

For me,” [Lawrence] said, “the time of work does not differ from the time of...

December 10, 2017

Experiencing the Presence of God in Your Work

We’d expect that some workers in some jobs experience God’s presence on a regular basis....

December 06, 2017

Can Your Work Make a Difference in Your Faith?

Can your work make a difference in your faith? Could what you do every day,...

December 05, 2017

Should You Take a Nap at Work?

Though I think napping at work is a fine idea, I recognize that not everyone...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Your Labor is a Work of Art

Over at The High Calling, Randy Kilgore points that our work for God is, in some...

November 04, 2014

Labor in the Dark

I really enjoyed this reflection from Howard Butt Jr., posted at The High Calling, about Toscanini...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

How We Form Our Routines

Speaking of routines, Casey N. Cep wrote at Pacific Standard about how we form our routines:...

October 20, 2014

Your Work Is Not as Important as You Want It To Be

At The High Calling, Marcus Goodyear reviews Called, the new book by Fuller Seminary president Mark Labberton....

October 16, 2014

Is Your Ambition Holding You Back?

At 99U, they're asking if your ambition - contrary to intuition - could be holding you...

October 07, 2014

Just Slap Something On It

The Paris Review blog has a wonderful, tiny little excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's letters about what...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Learning to Love Your Job

Over at The High Calling today, Bob Smietana writes about learning to love your job, in...

September 18, 2014

The Evaluation: Five Kinds of Supervisor Performance Reviews

Nobody likes being evaluated at work (or at least, I don't). But it can be...

September 09, 2014

Work less, do more, live better

Patience Schell reminds us that we might want to reconsider longer hours if we actually...

September 08, 2014

Work/Life Separation

I frequently work from home, as does my husband, and it's been a process of...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Your Work Matters, Even When It Feels Like It Doesn’t

A welcome reminder from The High Calling for this Monday: your work matters (even when...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

The 18 Minute Plan

I rather like this 18-minute plan for focus - not just because it helps us to feel...

July 15, 2014

Doing the Difficult Things

In In Earnest, Laura Herrod writes about doing difficult things, and sometimes not getting recognition -...

July 08, 2014

Staying Busy – or Getting Things Done?

Over at Inc, Paul Brown writes about why staying busy isn't the same as getting things...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Don’t Do What You Love

Wait, what? Don't do what you love? No, argues Charlotte Lieberman in Harvard Business Review -- just...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Beware of Three-Second Distractions

Here's a surprising fact (or maybe not): even a 3-second distraction can screw you up,...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Finding Simplicity at Work?

Simplicity: it's not easy to find. Over at The High Calling, Ann Kroeker explores finding...

April 23, 2014

Vocations from the Vision to the Gallery

I always perk up when I see the word "vocation" in an unexpected place, and...