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June 2017

June 02, 2017

Entrepreneurship and Escaping Ennui

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Belgian painter...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

How Government Support Saved Me, Too

D. L. Mayfield (whose career I've followed ever since she and I were put together...

May 26, 2017

Social Entrepreneurship…and Kale

I ran into Sow Green So Good over on the Seedbed Faith and Work Collective....

May 22, 2017

Why Healthcare Matters to God

Fighting Mortality One of the most amazing and simultaneously depressing stories in the Bible (from...

May 16, 2017

When Richer Weds Poorer

Starting tomorrow, I'm taking this class from Made to Flourish regarding ministering to blue-collar workers. As part...

May 14, 2017

When Shark Tank Met the Church: An Update on Innové

Reprinted from Seedbed. See MISSION:WORK's 2014 interview with Brian Jones here. By Brian Jones On...

May 11, 2017

How to form wise Christian institutional leaders in an uncertain world

Our patterns of education and formation must nurture practical wisdom, encourage unlikely friendships and seed...

May 10, 2017

#ThanksforTyping

This article by Kira Schlesinger appeared a bit ago at Ministry Matters, a site dedicated...

May 08, 2017

How to Spend The End of the Workday

A friend of mine once described the "how-to-be-productive" genre of articles as "hyper-masculine, business-world *&$%"....

May 05, 2017

Why Matt Overton started a social enterprise at his church

Social enterprises might be a risky and unusual form of ministry, but a youth pastor...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Meditation, Dentistry, and the Entrepreneur

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Johnny Depp...

April 25, 2017

Missing the Night Sky: or, the Industrial Revolution and the Stars

I started reading this recent article from The New Atlantis thinking that it would be mostly about...

April 22, 2017

Every dying church in America has a community garden. Here’s a different idea

Struggling congregations tend to chase after popular strategies rather than do what Jesus commanded --...

April 20, 2017

How to Deal With Distractions When You Have to Work Online

I found these tips from Lifehacker pretty helpful, since all of my jobs except for...

April 18, 2017

Human Beings are Not Investments

This is the message of a recent blog post by Amy Laura Hall of Duke...

April 15, 2017

#Easter

Are there any who are devout lovers of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright...

April 14, 2017

#GoodFriday

1 O sacred head, sore wounded, Defiled and put to scorn; O kingly head, surrounded...

April 13, 2017

#MaundyThursday

1 Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended, that we to judge thee have in...

April 13, 2017

The hidden sexism in workplace language

Still, even though we're no longer referring to "lady doctors" or to "poetesses" and "authoresses,"...

April 11, 2017

My feminist strategy for dealing with criticism as a Christian leader

What do you do when you’re called shrill, hysterical or bossy? The executive director of...

April 10, 2017

The 29 Best Jobs for Work-Life Balance

...assuming you believe in that concept at all. (Fodder for another post, as I'm off...

April 04, 2017

Guess where it doesn’t pay to go on maternity leave?

Evangelical seminaries, says Emily Dolan Gierer for Christianity Today: In theory, the demand for paid family...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Politics, Polarization, and Entrepreneurship

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. In his...

March 18, 2017

What happened when a man and woman switched names at work

Over on the other blog I run I've been sharing a lot of posts about...

March 15, 2017

The pastoral vocation in the age of President Trump

Donald Trump may be a different kind of leader, perhaps even a threat to our...

March 10, 2017

What Makes a Champagne Flute Like a Kiddush Cup?

We ran across this LinkedIn post written by a Christian paralegal and thought it served...

March 08, 2017

Millennial Women Are Burning Out

So says an article in Fast Company: Two years ago, Michelle* was a thriving real...

March 04, 2017

What if a university was designed to only produce workers?

I ran into an interesting post by Rhett Allain at Wired wondering about that question. Administrators...

March 02, 2017

A man putting fatherhood first

I like all sorts of things about this interview with Andy Crouch, but one that...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream

This recent New York Times article challenged some things I've been assuming: Blaming robots, though, while not...

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