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April 2014

April 18, 2014

The Cross and our Work: A Meditation for Good Friday

Today is Good Friday, the day Christians remember the death of Jesus on the cross...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Sports for the Glory of God

March Madness is upon us, and with it, all things basketball are important once again....

March 27, 2014

The Importance of Family Farming

The Curator (which has a new look!) published an interesting little piece on the trend toward...

March 20, 2014

Productivity Tips – from the SAT

Two weeks ago, the news broke that the College Board is changing the SAT, the...

March 03, 2014

Rituals for Creativity

It's Monday, which means we're all creaking back into gear. On Mondays I always try...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Beauty and Wonder at Work

Over at The High Calling, they're having a discussion about beauty and wonder in the...

February 19, 2014

Why Do We Procrastinate?

Writers are, apparently, the worst procrastinators, though they're hardly the only ones. Procrastination is a...

February 17, 2014

The Missing Ingredient At Work

This feels timely, for a Monday. Over at The High Calling, Leslie Leyland Fields reflects...

February 14, 2014

Will You Pray For My Success?

Over at The High Calling, Jen Sandbuite asks a provocative question: why is it considered...

February 11, 2014

Gary Haugen Discusses ‘The Locust Effect’

Last week, Gary Haugen's book The Locus Effect was released, and he did a half-hour interview...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Don’t Let Your Need for Approval Get In the Way

A lot of things can hold us back in our work - something they were...

January 08, 2014

Industry of One

Two of my friends from church (who are married to one another) have a website...

January 06, 2014

Beating the first day back

Happy new year! Or, maybe, not so happy. News sources around the world report that...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

The Danger in Securing Our Futures

Over at The High Calling, they're talking about "the danger of securing our futures": Chasing...

December 18, 2013

Taking advantage of vocation

Charles Mathewes, a professor at UVA, recently wrote for Inside Higher Ed about vocation, calling,...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

“You Didn’t Buy A Big Enough House”

At The High Calling, Sam Van Eman looks at one of the barriers to the...

November 11, 2013

Your Productive Passion

As I mentioned last week, The High Calling is taking a look at Todd Henry's book Die...

November 08, 2013

The Art of Weekend Rest

A timely article, if you've had a week like mine, from the always-lovely Kinfolk: This kind...

November 05, 2013

Die Empty

I really liked Todd Henry's book The Accidental Creative and have been using it with my...

October 2013

October 17, 2013

Upward Mobility Has a Downside

Related to yesterday's post: at The High Calling, David Rupert recently reflected on the downside...

October 10, 2013

Liturgy of Life

Over at the Washington Institute's website, Madison Perry is writing about a topic that is...

September 2013

September 10, 2013

A Fisherman’s Personality Profile

Over at The High Calling, Jen Hanno Sandbulte reminds us that the disciples weren't in...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

Can We Survive Reaching the Edge of Heartbreak at Work?

Gideon Strauss is the executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at...

August 01, 2013

The Perfect Workspace?

We don't think about this all too much, but our work is not shaped just...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Business Imitates God

This via The High Calling: the theologian Wayne Grudem helps us understand some of the...

July 19, 2013

Paying the Blessings Forward

As a college professor, I work very hard at relatively low pay relative to my...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

For the Weekend: Work, and the End of the World

Three links for your weekend reading: First, Katherine Leary Alsdorf wrote a piece called "Stop...

June 26, 2013

Work Life Balance Isn’t That At All

The High Calling has a wise post from Kate Harris (who directs the Washington Institute...

June 25, 2013

Life Work

Well, not to be tooting my own horn, but I think this would be of...

June 06, 2013

Working for God’s Best???

There's a great article on The High Calling called "Working for God's Best." Paul Sartarelli...